• MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Sure, it was for spices, definitely not for money.

    It was a different time. We don’t do that anymore!

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      11 months ago

      Don’t get high off your own supply… Still true, we import and export more as we consume.

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      11 months ago

      Like, we bought and sold spice… For money.

      People obviously wanted spice and paid for it.

      That’s how trade and industry work. We didn’t just bring back exotic rocks.

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        11 months ago

        Isn’t Marx the one that never worked nor had any money his entire life? Yup!

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        11 months ago

        It’s good to read Marx books, but history books are better. That way you can see examples of how socialism always fails due to human corruption.