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Farmer-Rick

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1. A lot of people are lucky and think everyone has the same opportunities
Sat Oct 22, 2022, 01:03 PM
Oct 2022

It's like a lottery winner wondering why everyone doesn't win when they play the lottery.

In capitalism some people win but much more people lose. The winners think they are either specially blessed by an imaginary god or think everyone else is just lazy. Or both.

I knew a white guy who was born and raised in the most outrageously racist place in Kentucky. He grew up to despise racists, bigots and Nazis. He was able to see beyond his own society and objectively see what was really moral.

A lot of people can't see beyond their own society.

Like Thomas Jefferson

"Despite working tirelessly to establish a new nation founded upon principles of freedom and egalitarianism, Jefferson owned over 600 enslaved people during his lifetime, the most of any U.S. president."

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/slavery-in-the-thomas-jefferson-white-house#:~:text=Despite%20working%20tirelessly%20to%20establish,most%20of%20any%20U.S.%20president.


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