Slavery made some men rich....can't you see we are headed

[Stargazer99]

in the same direction? Only this time it is the lower classes instead of the black man and woman. Corps and individuals can get rich on the same human capital. when you lose your job or source of income you are not free. Outsourcing is one way to brake the back of labor in this country. Allowing Mexican semis into this country is a way to break the back of the strongest unions (teamsters and longshore). Remember the Republican god Reagan breaking the back of the air traffic controllers? What has to happen before the suckers in this nation begin to wake up? Those that "own the means of production" are playing the common man to the hilt along with the present administration.

[DaveJ]

1. I think the slavery comparison is inappropriate

There are plenty of other words to to describe us, such as 'serfs' or 'indentured servants.'

Point is, the same kind of people who thought slavery was okay still exist. Those people spend all their time now trying to think of new ways to profit off the backs of others.

Most everything in the consumer world, now, it seems, is meant to sedate us so that we do nothing about it.

Books like 1984 were supposed to be warnings but instead many among the Reight use it as a guide book.

[Warpy]

5. It is so far

but study the Saxons some time.

When the Saxons conquered part of Britain, they were an amazingly egalitarian group. Each man got three things: a plot of land, a sword and his wergeld, or a man's worth of gold.

Some prospered and some did not, whether through bad weather, bad seed, bad luck, or indolence. The first thing they gave to a prosperous man was the gold, in return for sustenance and the next year's seed. The second was the sword, where they pledged allegiance to the prosperous. The third was the land, which they would still live on and work but the produce of which would belong to the prosperous man who held the debt, subsistence to be doled out at his pleasure.

How are people in the US maintaining a first world lifestyle? What do they really own? I'm afraid a lot of people who consider themselves free and middle class are in negative worth territory.

Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it. I'm afraid economic serfdom is not out of the question.

[DaveJ]

6. What makes me sick is that all people have to do is CARE about it

The entire mime among the reight is to "not care" about any of that. We just take part is "class warfare" is one of their popular talking points.

It would be easy for the government to regulate the distribution of real estate, not in order to create a 'communist system' but to give every person in the U.S. a taste of real freedom -- Something like that would make us truly stand out among other nations again.

[HereSince1628]

2. The concentration of wealth made possible by potentially immortal corporations

must inevitabley strip the nonwealthy of sufficient assets to maintain an independent existance. At that point the poor will become as serfs. Living in poverty and servitude, struggling to maintain a potato for a meal and a hovel for protection from the weather, indebted into perpetuity to those who stole the dignity that comes from choosing how and when to labor.

[DaveJ]

4. Our dignity was also stolen by technology and lack of land also

The way I see it, there was a time when hard work paid off. Not anymore. We no longer have the opportunity to find a plot of land, work hard and build our own lives.

And now that technology has pretty much automated everything, hard workers are humiliated by lack of funds they need to live respectfully autonomous lives. No matter how hard a person works, many have no hope of owning a simple roof over their heads anymore. If they are lucky a bank who owns it will allow them to live in it, and if they are not lucky they have to rent. But again, hard work or any other kind of contribution to others is irrelevant.

It's the 'haves' who have little or no chance vs the 'have-nots' more than any other moment in history.

EDIT: And I'd like to add, that it's surprising how popular it is to be outraged over the fact that the power hungery are stealing Iraq's oil, and less popular to care that they have already stolen everything from us.

[peacetalksforall]

3. And if push comes to shove, they have their database for selective

extinction and will have "OUR chip in YOU". Put them in the same tower at a particular time.

New world order = new god order.

You leached off the medical corporations? We DON'T need YOU anymore. Poof!

[flashl]

7. Slavery is not too strong

In Florida recently a family was sent to prison for holding people in slavery. Human trafficing is modern day slavery. Working inmates for .25 an hour to build limousines, computer components, is slavery.