From the Bourdain video about Singapore having slaves (maids)
Oh really? When your choices are either being in squalor or being a slave servant, people chose the later? WOW!
Insert Stalin quote here
Love to pat myself on the back for not chaining people to a post back home while I'm living a permanent leisure existence.
It's really hard to feed scraps to so many servants that do shitton of labor for me, being a job creator ain't easy!
But wait, what if I didn't even have to be responsible of feeding and clothing my slaves?
It's like if your boss ordered you to come along and work on a trip to space or hell even on a mega-yacht or something. You'd jump at that chance.
I love when people with pathetic politics assume everyone else is as housebroken and simpering as they are
Love to be trapped in a metal tube in the vacuum of space with my boss
"if your boss ordered you to get into a suicide submarine you knew to be poorly constructed, you'd jump at that chance"
I dunno, it'd probably be easier to
your boss off a megayacht in international waters rather than in the office"My boss wants me to go with him on his Titanic submarine holiday."
Also, in my experience, people are pretty evenly split on whether or not they want to travel for work, even if the destination is fun. A lot of people have child care commitments or would otherwise just rather stick to their schedule.
And this is for salaried professionals who would be getting their own accommodation and expenses paid. I've seen people turn down business class flights and 5 star hotels on the company dime.
I feel like if you know more than zero people with "servants" you should be constantly striving to make it zero.
It's kind of fascinating but not surprising that people who have these "servants" justify it the same way old time US slavers did. As if the master is a father figure doing something nice for his little children.
It's a delusional logic that I think many actually believe. They create (or at least perpetuate) the conditions that bring upon slavery and then act like "I always bring my slaves with me on vacation. They must really love me!" It's impressive how people can always write themselves as the good guy no matter what they do in life
I feel like if you know more than zero people with "servants" you should be constantly striving to make it zero.
Through violence
"Do you condemn the actions of John Brown?"
Intense stare "Do I condemn the actions of John Brown?" momentary pause "I do not AND!... I will tell you why."
That's my written version of every time someone asks Finkelstein to condemn Hamas
I, too, love to justify oppressive hierarchy by inventing scenarios where sometimes the oppressor acts with charitable benevolence.
I mean this isnt even charitable benevolence. They go to the vacations to serve the family, even in the example of the trip to space you would be working too.
At great personal risk, in the example of a space or near-space flight.
I, Rigoberta Menchu is a fantastic read for anyone interested in the history of Guatemala from an indigenous perspective. One of the things that stood out to me was how being a maid in the city was seen as pretty much the worst possible job, worse than working the fields on coffee plantations, because the people who owned the houses were such reactionary psychos
enslavement is a long process, liberation is the opposite process
So that's where that clip was from where he makes the joke about being a communist? I was wondering what episode that was taken from. Guess I should read a bit more about the history of Singapore since it gets a lot of praise from libs and such.
Human nature is when people like mega-yachts and shit, and definitely not something like being with your loved ones
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Yeah I would go along with my boss on a yacht to work because I can convince him that i like him in order to get more money
Working on a mega yacht sounds terrible actually, you'd have to deal with a bunch of the most entitled rich assholes on the planet who are also probably drunk or high the whole time.
