• Brem@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    100 years from now (if we still exist) historians will be lecturing about this trend as an example of how “influencers” pushed a trend that was supported by forced labor. Which is likely true. Capitalism is all about making the cheapest product and gaining the most from the end result.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      And those historians will surely be lowly graduate students shackled to an exploitative system where they must justify their own existence to eat.

      OR

      Those historians are an elite upper class in an information economy where knowledge is power and they hold the secrets of the ancients from an oppressed populous.

      Because with humans there can be no balance.