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Except medieval peasants had more holidays than modern Americans (slrpnk.net)

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[–] workerONE -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't think that peasant economy was exploitative in the same way capitalism is. Peasants were largely farmers who grew food and provided the landowner with a percentage of their crop. They were integral to human survival and as far as I know the percentage taken by landowners was not comparable to the wealth extracted from workers today.

[–] whygohomie 13 points 1 month 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.

[–] OrganicMustard 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You see wild shit on lemmy .world