The Billionaires Plan To Escape From Us

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36. Okey dokey

If you are going to try to discredit me with a label, I would prefer "socialist" to "libertarian," Thanks. Hell, "tankie" would be better lol. What libertarian talks about the Enclosure Acts??

"This idea that humans had such a better life when they were nomadic gatherers is a tiny variation from neo-libertarian tripe of someone like Yuval Noah Harari."

I didn't say anything like that. The Olmecs, the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Incas were not "nomadic gatherers."

"I referred to Germany before World War I, when it most certainly was not a Liberal democracy."

Yes, and I referred to Germany before WWII, when it most definitely was.

"There is some fundamental disconnect where you think that everyone in medieval times owned land."

I didn't say they owned land, not in the sense you mean. I said they weer drive from the land, they lost access to the resources of the land. There is no controversy about that. The same pattern applies to all of the colonial lands, as well. Again, there is no basis for controversy about that. It is well documented. Who "owned" the Western Hemisphere before the Europeans arrived? The Europeans brought the concept of land ownership with them. That concept, which you are defending, was just an excuse for exploitation and genocide.

"Colonialism was terrible, but that was an mercantilist, neo-Feudal approach to resource aggregation and utilization more than it was capitalism. It is hard to argue that colonialism is Liberalism or capitalism when none of the colonial people had agency in their exploitation. That is a prerequisite for both. "

No idea what you are trying to say there.