Quote:Factory workers and cotton pickers don't get promoted or head-hunted, FD.
So who gets made foreman?
Quote:The English working classes moved to the cities because they couldn't get work on the land.
In other words, they had one more option than most people throughout history. What point are you trying to make Karnal? That having a motivation for doing something means you are not free?
Quote:There was no such thing as upward mobility in the 18th century. If you were born a serf, you stayed one.
There were far more options for upward mobility than existed previously, and at the same time in most places. You appear to be arguing that the UK was not good enough to overpower nations that existed centuries ago because they do not meet our lofty standards. If there is an actual argument in there somewhere that I am missing, you should tell us what it is.
Quote:It wasn't liberalism that defined the German economy, FD, it was industrialisation.
Which took off in western Europe rather than elsewhere because of liberalisation of the market in human labour. Are you attempting to disagree with me?
Quote:Now you know very well you're just having a bit of fun here. No Muslim is calling for the reintroduction of slavery, especially G.
I did not say they were. Shall I repeat myself?
Quote:No Muslim country has slavery.
Thanks to repeated interventions by non-Muslim countries.
Quote:You're trying to wash away Whitey's history of slavery, pretending that because we made the switch to wage-labour we've somehow expunged the Holocaust, the slave trade, the gulags and concentration camps, all thoroughly modern, industrialised, and white.
You are getting hysterical Karnal. Shall I copy and paste the OP, or do you think you could find your own way to reading it?