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We need to stop using the history of slavery to bolster anti-capitalist ideology. Ingenuity, not exploitation by slavery or imperialism or finance, is the story of the modern world. https://t.co/Y5tGKA6yRw

— reason (@reason) July 19, 2018

Economists have been thinking about such issues for half a century. You wouldn't know it from the King Cottoners. They assert, for example, that a slave was "cheap labor." Mistaken again. After all, slaves ate, and they didn't produce until they grew up. Stanley Engerman and the late Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel confirmed in 1974 what economic common sense would suggest: that productivity was incorporated into the market price of a slave. It's how any capital market works. If you bought a slave, you faced the cost of alternative uses of the capital. No supernormal profits accrued from the purchase. Slave labor was not a free lunch. The wealth was not piled up.

Slavery was of course appalling, a plain theft of labor.

The war to end it was righteous altogether—though had the South been coldly rational, the ending could have been achieved as in the British Empire in 1833 or Brazil in 1888 without 600,000 deaths. But prosperity did not depend on slavery. The United States and the United Kingdom and the rest would have become just as rich without the 250 years of unrequited toil. They have remained rich, observe, even after the peculiar institution was abolished, because their riches did not depend on its sinfulness.

Taxation is a slavery admired by most of the left and much of the right. Its defenses echo Southern rhetoric in 1860. "Citizens are children who need to be protected, yet forced to work." "Liberty is dangerous." "The defense of property depends on a big government." "God ordained it."

We need to stop using the history of slavery to bolster anti-capitalist ideology. Ingenuity, not exploitation by slavery or imperialism or finance, is the story of the modern world.

Gargantua wrote:Znam da su mu objašnjavali da niko njemu ne uzima PDV, da PDV suštinski plaća krajnji potrošač a ne firma ali vidim da nije urodilo plodom.

Kellyanne Conway links synagogue massacre to “anti-religiosity” of “late-night comedians.”
Appearing on Fox and Friends on Monday morning, presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway made a strange comment about the Saturday shootings in a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead. “The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue and funny,” she said. “To make fun of anybody of faith. To constantly be making fun of people who express religion, the late night comedians, the unfunny people on TV shows. It’s always anti-religious. And remember, these people were gunned down in their place of worship. As were the people in South Carolina several years ago.”

Sources say executives at @Twitter gave Saudi Arabia the location & details of a dissident who was later tortured to death. https://t.co/0PUIj65try

— Shaun King (@shaunking) November 10, 2018

Obrisan tweet. pic.twitter.com/u2qbrcpfLN

— shawn40kemp (@dusanlj) November 24, 2018

Danas i bogatstvo i siromaštvo podjednako slabi pojedinca!Bogati nisu dovoljno bogati da pomognu svim siromašnima a siromašni preziru bogate zbog prirode siromaštva!Dajmo sve od sebe da pomognemo onima koji bez pomoći ne mogu!

— Željko Mitrović (@zeljkomitrovic_) February 11, 2019

U tekstu pod naslovom "Genocid u Srebrenici", koji je objavljen 5. februara, Antić piše da je srpska vojska po zauzimanju Srebrenice obezbijedila autobuse za evakuaciju 17.000 žene, djece i staraca na muslimansku teritoriju, te dodaje da su mnogi od njih "odlučili da odu u Srbiji", gdje i danas "žive potpuno bezbjedno".

O masovnoj likvidaciji muslimanskih muškaraca u Srebrenici i okolini, Antić, pak piše:
"Pri tome se mora imati u vidu da su ti isti zarobljeni muslimanski vojnici prije osvajanja Srebrenice ubili 2.500 Srba u selima oko Srebrenice i to djecu, žene, starce, invalide, čak i stoku i pse! (...) To je bio pravi genocid, a strijeljanje ratnih zarobljenika svakako je ratni zločin, ali motivisan osvetom? Genocid iz osvete ili na mah jednostavno ne postoji", piše Antić i dodaje da je utvrđeno da je granatiranje pijace Markale tokom opsade Sarajeva došlo sa muslimanske strane, te da je utvrđeno da je masakr nad Albancima u Račku na Kosovu 1999. godine "takođe bio lažan"