• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It’s a good thing there were no genocides, slave grades, and constant wars before capitalism. Pheww

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      8 days ago

      Scale. It’s about scale. Capitalism gave the economic incentive to take these historical evils and industrialize them to a scale not even imaginable before. A scale so large that even you, today, with the world at your fingertips are unable to comprehend, evidenced by the fact that you are currently failing to comprehend it.