You've gone too far, eh?

[PopeTom]

Popetom

Slave labor solves everything, because my next question was how we're going to move all that coal from point A to point B.

That's my conspiracy theory and I'm sticking to it.

The Republicans are anti-choice and anit-education because the rich fuckers think it's the quickest way back to feudalism.

[Jasper]

Feudalism just isn't as efficient as what we have now.  If you run some numbers, you'll find that wage slavery is much more profitable than real outright slavery.

[Freeky]

Yeah, because you have to buy the damn things (and I'll be fucked if they aren't an arm and a leg), and then there's upkeep and maintenance.  I mean, even if you kept maintenance below OSHA standards, you'd end up putting out more money buying new ones all the time, because the damn things keep breaking.  And your managers never seem to grasp the idea of "gently used", and let's face it, nothing gets good bang for your buck, so why NOT just use em all up in a few goes?

The way it is now, you don't have to pay for  maintenance, insurance, upkeep, replacements.  You just have to buy them on the installment plan and they're yours until they break themselves.

[PopeTom]

But once you get rid of abortion and contraception they MAKE THEMSELVES!!!   

Also to be fair to the Democrats their part in the conspiracy theory is that they want to return to a palace economy.

[Freeky]

Yes, but that's even more upkeep and maintenance.

If you want my opinion, the real money is in an agrarian society/goods trade system.  Chickens for doctor visits, things like that.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Plus giving people a little money and then tempting them with a bunch of expensive bullshit they can only afford if they sign away their income means not only do you get free labor, they end up paying you for the privilege.

THE PLAN is...

1. Do away with bartering so people must rely on your artificial tokens of wealth. [done]
2. Do away with cash, so people must have good reputation according to you in order to do anything. [mostly done]
3. Do away with ownership altogether, so people can work themselves to death but it's inherently impossible to ever get ahead. [see: leases, 30-year mortgages, interest traps, short-term loans, etc. etc.]

In the end, slavery hasn't gone anywhere, it's just been upgraded.

[Jasper]

Vex is on the money.

Ah hem.  As it were.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

the Emancipation Proclamation, in effect, said, "WAIT WAIT .... WHY ONLY HAVE BLACK SLAVES? WE'RE MISSING OUT ON ENTIRE RACES FULL OF PRIME SLAVE MATERIAL!"

[Jasper]

I wouldn't go so far, myself.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

well yeah, but it did do absolutely no good for anyone.