@seamus_slade: Why did people choose homelessness over wage labor?

madeline.mcginty96 :

the kings never really left. they became CEO’s.

Dudeone toNothin :

privatization always harms the public

AsteriaNoctis :

Is it necessary to romanticize feudalism in order to condemn capitalism? I like the conclusion but I’m not mourning serfdom

Thaddeus :

we say the reason to learn history is to avoid the mistakes of the past, but this shows another reason: expanding our sense of injustice beyond the immediate horizon of our own lived experience.

existentialpenguin :

some people’s time in the US is only worth $7.25/hr. that is EVIL.

okraandeba :

I’m tryna be a vagabond fr

Rachael Tosin :

@sun.ulo I just finished Caliban and the Witch and I’m going to get sterilised 🙈

BlueberryCrisp :

how can I like this a billion times

Anita 🤎 :

It will probably take centuries to build something new… we’ll never see it 🥲

Gamekilling25 :

TJ Delpil :

very interesting.. we never learned this. They made it sound like capitalism was better than feudalism.. no indentured servitude.

Aaron $hide :

Money, and capital should not dominate government. Representation means we have accurate representation by someone like us and who understands us.

orbgorbler :

i have never understood the concept of “owning land”. how does one own a part of the earth?? all of this planet is equally shared with all of it’s residents, human and otherwise.

spirit quantum :

We go to work to produce the products we turn around and buy with the hourly wage we "earned" making the damn product. Why are we buying back our own produce...

Unf*ck democracy :

The Enclosure Act—taught this in my 10th grade world history class.

Whootowl :

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration". - Abraham Lincoln

Tipper Dreams :

Having taken 400-level labor history, can confirm this is a highly cogent analysis!

scar :

THIS is so IMPORTANT

sevenhouses :

Never thought about that in my whole life. That transition. I just assumed it was seen as an upgrade. Thanks b.

Scot 🇵🇸 :

This is why understandi history (and by extension historical materialism) is so crucial to making sense of the issues we face today. Great video

mollykat1312 :

the fact that "open the commons" is still a political call thats comprehensible in the modern times and still relatable and desirable is telling. we've felt it the whole time. we've known the whole time.

nightmare :

they're trying to do this with contract work

John Lagado :

Excellent explanation. It's sad that many people believe this has always been the way society has operated but it's only been a thing for the past 500 years. People often imagine Capitalism being an urban phenomenon that started in the big cities and spread to the countryside but in fact Capitalism started in the English countryside when landlords started to expect rent to be paid in money not produce and the pressure of land "improvement" became a thing. Something I didn't realise until I read Ellen Meiksins Wood's The Origin of Capitalism that the etymology of the word "improvement" meant to "improfit" land i.e to turn the land into a source of money (this recasts the term "self-improvement" in an interesting light!) This early modern English financial invention slowly spread to Europe but it arrives there much later and post dates the French Revolution in France for example. The introduction of capitalism required the destruction of the European peasant class which was achieved mostly in the 19th century.

marxleninmaxxing :

Fun Fact, in the 1200s most peasants and laborers worked only 150-180 days a year to come around and had vacation the rest of the year