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bucolic_frolic

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1. Yup. It's all about laissez-faire capitalism

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 05:10 PM

Dec 2025

Last edited Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:24 PM - Edit history (1)

The guys who eventually mined coal and built railroads had no restrictions on kidnapping people and selling them as slaves. The 1600s, more or less. And they bought grand estates and built castles.

Are deportations a budding slavery system? Any media accounts of what happens to these people?

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The History of Wealth Throughout History -- Sarah Cooper [View all] erronis Dec 2025 OP

Yup. It's all about laissez-faire capitalism bucolic_frolic Dec 2025 #1

Well done! snot Dec 2025 #2

She's on point as always... and this bit makes me shudder thinking about that newly minted Arkansas lottery billionaire JudyM Dec 2025 #3

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OK, a little more comforting. JudyM Dec 2025 #10

OMG! That was good! ananda Dec 2025 #5

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Brilliant. summer_in_TX Dec 2025 #8

She is great! canetoad Dec 2025 #9

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She's a peach! Liberal In Texas Dec 2025 #12

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodated Ping Tung Dec 2025 #13