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   Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 06:13:27 JST Brendan Jones

   • Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉
   • Gay Whitlam

   @apophis @gwit @AdrianRiskin The defence I hear of the exploitation and unequal exchange is that the gain in wealth for poor people meant a decrease in poverty and thus an increase in quality of life.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 08:26:40 JST Brendan Jones

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     • Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉
     • Gay Whitlam

     @AdrianRiskin @apophis @gwit Oh absolutely, though I think that argument is mostly applied to the last 50 years or so (ie post slavery) when extreme poverty has supposedly gone down. (Ignoring of course that capitalism and colonialism were the causes of the poverty in the first place 🤦♂️)

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     Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉 (adrianriskin@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 08:26:41 JST Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉

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     • Gay Whitlam

     @Brendanjones @apophis @gwit 12,000,000 forcibly imported African slaves, among many, many millions of other victims from the end of the fifteenth century to the present day may not find this argument so convincing.