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    • this is why I suck at business, I'd rather pay someone locally a decent rate than pay 10 people overseas to do the same job at half the price._niko
    • what a crock. plenty of poor countries that used slavery. plenty of rich countries that didn't resort to slavery.hotroddy
    • ...and Catholic countries didn't develop capitalist markets...and protestant countries didn't exploit indentured workforce long before slave trade... etcNonEntity
    • on a whole- protestant countries did their own farming. catholic countries relied on slaves which is why they are banana republic states today. no work ethichotroddy
    • But in this country, hotroddy, it was built on slavery. There was even a war over it.monospaced
    • You mean wealthy southern families earned their wealth on slavery 150 years ago.hotroddy
    • Highly skilled labor built this country. It was called the industrial revolutionhotroddy
    • Maybe start a thread on American capitalism... plenty countries had slaves (and not just African) and are poor and vice versa, as hotroddy mentionedNonEntity
    • there's a reason why the south was always poor. Because it relied on slavery and not on industry.hotroddy
    • American experience isn't the only one, or necessarily the worst one, and doesn't speak for rest of the worldNonEntity
    • Generally when Americans say anything that sounds universal they're only speaking of American history/etc.i_monk
    • More specifically, MLK was also speaking about America, uniquelymonospaced
    • is that why he ends it w 'abroad'? I'm surprised you put so much trust in a person with a 'doctorate' in theology.hotroddy
    • If the dude had traveled to a country outside of USA which participated in slavery he'd quickly realize how wrong and ignorant he is.hotroddy
    • that's why he has a doctorate in theology and not anthropologyhotroddy
    • he says abroad because it's spread from here, of coursemonospaced
    • I didn't put any trust in him either. He was a civil rights leader, who did great things, and symbolizes just that. His words are also true.monospaced
    • you're slavery spread from the USA?hotroddy
    • *you're sayinghotroddy
    • "Capitalism continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor here and abroad" is how you parse that last part.i_monk
    • reminds me of Hugo Chavez who made a career spouting such nonsense. He destroyed a country by marginalizing the people who built the country that provided jobshotroddy
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