When has this ever not been the case?
My thoughts exactly. When has the world not looked like this?
Before we invented agriculture. Looked worse though.
Plenty of areas have looked plenty of ways, and before global imperialism was practical, the inequality between those regions was not always exploitative.
Feudal Periods did not have less inequality.
There are entire continents that never had feudalism except in colonies.
Lmao maybe antarctica. Scales of civilizations have always been growing, the only way to skip from tribalism to imperialism without feudalism is to deny that a continent ever had anything but tribes before being conquered: an insult to them.
I don’t even know where to start with this. Every single thing you’ve said or implied is so wrong it’s also based on something wrong.
If I had to guess I’d say your view of ancient and even slightly pre-modern societies is entirely extrapolated backwards from eurocentric capitalist just-so stories and takes no account of anything else–not to mention that my mention of global imperialism just meant a relatively wealthy north American culture 2000 years ago wasn’t necessarily exploiting a devastatingly poor European one, because that would have been impractical, so only regarding cultures within practical reach of one another is more sensible than a global comparison is a more sensible measure of this for most of human history.
Except the Antarctica thing. Maybe.
Never said anything abou that. It was not meant as a political view. Just a funny little tangent.
Before agriculture I dont think any of the pictures could have happened.
Well yeah of course not. We didn’t have cameras back then
That is true@– I won’t bother to delve into exactly when, but I think we invented photography way later.
What is the source for the images?
To me it looks like a fancy dinner party in say London, and a picture of Gaza.
If that is accurate, then it isn’t really how a revolution starts.
I get what you are trying to say, but I need more info before agreeing or not.
That was at Windsor Castle this last weekend at the banquet for Trump’s state visit
No way that is Gaza. No way. Way too much food on their table. Might be Egypt? Syria? Iraq? Maybe even Iran? But not Gaza. The people in Gaza are starving.
Edit just noticed the ruins behind them. Syria maybe?
Ok, my mistake, my point still stands, pretending that these two pictures comes from the same city or even country, and drawing a line leading to revolution is just dumb.
The poor people in the ruins are not even on the same continent as the dinner party.
Looks like Guildhall in London
Yeah to be honest no one really cares about the picture on the left. To be clear, they are paying to be there with their own personal wealth. Now you could make the arguement that that wealth was misappropriated but it’s not coming directly from the public purse.
There are plenty of examples of abusive power that could have been provided, but that isn’t one of them. That’s just an example of the wealthy being tasteless.
Picture in the left was this last weekend at Windsor Castle, state banquet for Trump. None of them paid to be there
To be clear, they are paying to be there with their own personal wealth. Now you could make the arguement that that wealth was misappropriated but it’s not coming directly from the public purse.
Shite. Who’s paying for those Beefeaters? Pretty sure it’s mine and your taxes.
Being tasteless is perfectly acceptable on a social level.
I feel like a more appropriate punishment for Marie Antoinette would be to put her in a cell and feed her only 1 slice of cake and 1 cup of water, 3 times per day. For 3 years.
