That said, labels do shape perception - especially among poorly educated people who just have a passing knowledge of the thing in question. Like if it were common to call the civil war “the war of northern aggression” like some people in the South historically have, that would be inaccurate as a label and would be misleading.
I don’t like calling plantations labor camps. While they were labor camps in part and needed forced labor on the premises to exist, they were also quite distinct from labor camps in many ways. Similarly, we don’t refer to Auschwitz as a labor camp, typically we’d say that it was a death camp - a specific type of concentration camp, which is an important facet not present in “Labor Camps” more broadly.
Plantations also typically had large manor houses on their grounds and used slave labor not only to achieve economic goals but also to maintain the slave-owner’s house. Additionally, they often had small-scale economies and cultures where slaves were either issued tokens to trade for essentials or bartered among themselves. I see plantations as a farm-labor camp with a slave-owning family’s home present on the premises and elements of village life for enslaved workers. Plantations were typically too large to contain the slaves in locked barracks or in a walled/fenced section, so their imprisonment was enforced by a system of bounty hunters, legal enforcement for the return and punishment of runaway slaves, and other legal and cultural mechanisms that made escape difficult and dangerous rather than (typically) by physical confinement. Those are features not adequately captured by “Labor Camp”.
I generally agree. Still, cocaine is super addictive and the risk of OD is pretty high
I mean… it is waaaay better than whiskey. Which is why it’s worse than whiskey.
The Donald Slump ^tm
The existence of publishers for scientific literature is completely unnecessary in the modern era. They exist only to make profits to continue their existence. They don’t actually provide value anymore when research institutions can just conduct peer review and then let researchers self-publish.
They create negative value (a bottleneck) by limiting who can access research for just… aggregating and hosting articles.
It was just a joke. But deleted since it was in bad taste.
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That’s the one book on basic economics they might actually read though. Fuck thomas sowell
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Oh sure. But the dual citizens bit is especially egregious. Like you have to pay a fee just to keep your citizenship even if you aren’t using any US service bc you live somewhere else.
It’s called anchoring
Funny enough, the US levies income tax against dual citizens living abroad.
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Because we have an extremely strong propaganda machine enforcing the status quo and are also a very geographically dispersed country. The news media in America has a long history of under-reporting protest movements here.
Maybe they could try an unpaid internship to get experience first
Clearly they just need to take their own advice:
No more avocado toast
Stop buying so much coffee out. Make it at home.
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Profit.
Simple as.
Yep, I came to comment this. Honestly this could be pretty good news for player 2 - getting a jury to convict when the punishment is death will be much, much harder.
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But they weren’t for the purpose of killing. They were for the purpose of keeping people alive and contolled for forced labor. Auschwitz existed to exterminate people, so death/extermination camp is a word that conveys that meaning. Dachau largely existed to keep people alive (temporarily) for forced labor, but we wouldn’t call Dachau a plantation. It wasn’t someone’s private property with a big manor house on it and people they bought and kept for slave labor.
Plantations may be (are) romanticized in some places among some people, but that word means something specific. If we want to coin a new word without the baggage of it being romanticized, okay. But it’s going to be hard to convey that precise meaning with new words. Imo it’d be be better to call them plantations but do a better job educating people (especially white people in the south) that plantations were very fucked up and were a type of forced labor camp.