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[–] bouh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The effect of examples is not to underestimate. That's how they keep workers in check, and that's how guillotining a king got 2 centuries of democracy.

[–] phthalocyanin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

incredibly simplistic perspective, and intellectually dishonest; we traded monarchy for a dictatorship of the capital owning class.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, and it was a big paradigm shift, from blood linage to money linage.

[–] phthalocyanin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

what is generational wealth?