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A Boring Dystopia
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Yay!
Feudalism!
Slavery 2.0
Yeah, I guess you're correct.
Not much new abt it though, I'd say still slavery 1.0
No this is still just capitalism. This was standard practice until the 1930s in the US and UK.
Among the many things that is failed to be taught in US schools is how much of the early colonial populations were the impoverished/mentally ill/unhoused of England that basically got exiled for pretty crimes in order to be shipped out and populate the colonies, or were offered passage in the hope of a better life but at a cost they could never payoff because the structure favored perpetual indentured servitude. It never goes away, they just figure out new ways to rig the system whenever one form of it becomes too difficult to maintain. The masses get the illusion of progress or change, but it’s the same game updated to match the sensibilities of the era.