ISPYSHHHGUY wrote:
SLAVERY existed in the UK this time last century, as I pointed out quite recently......millions of INDUSTRIAL workers were paid just enough to stop their families from starving, as long as ALL their meagre wages were handed over to the family.
I'm well aware of the conditions of the working class in the UK's history, ISPYSHHHGUY. But the poverty - or wage slavery - of our white industrial workers wasn't the same as history's racism and black slavery. They weren't lynched, or kept in chains, or forbidden from marrying and raising families, or brutalised in the same way. They were not *literally* slaves with no freedom of movement or rights *whatsoever.*
ISPYSHHHGUY wrote:
SLAVERY is still alive and well today......only it's now called 'consumerism'.
No, it's still called slavery! It still exists in various forms around the world.
Don't quite get the consumerism point. Excessive consumerism may be considered the source of many woes but you can't really consider the people in today's western consumerist society the same as black slaves in the old plantations, surely?
You have a computer. You buy old Sparkys off Ebay! Have you a DVD player?
If you buy things in excess of your most basic needs then you're a part of the consumerist society yourself.
