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[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Ah, the good old days of serfdom when peasants were tied to the land/manor and its Lord in a slave-like state.

You see some wild shit on Lemmy apparently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

You see wild shit on lemmy .world

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Now we are tied to corporations and state as slave-likes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Almost. We are proletarians working under late-stage Capitalism, where markets have largely coalesced into monopolist syndicates and cartels, and competition is rapidly dying out. The conditions are ripe for siezure, public ownership, and central planning, ie Socialism.