Given the geo-political and local political situations in the United States what are the chances that we go back into a slave supported agrarian society?
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Alvar Hanso
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Essentially none. The "slave" portion of that is not so unlikely. Given the mobility of capital and the globalization of Neo-Liberal economic policies, more and more of our economic production is being done by people at lower and lower wages. The logical extension of that is slave labor or something barely different from it. For example, I've read reports that some construction workers in China have been employed to build buildings for room, board and the promise of wages at the end of the job. However, some of these employers have gone bankrupt or left the country, leaving the workers unpaid (many of them commit suicide). Moving to an agrarian society would be almost impossible. We in the Western World have become extremely dependent on energy-intensive machinery-intensive mass agriculture. 150 years ago, about 2/3 of Americans worked on farms. Today, about 2% do. The problems in teaching 150 million+ people how to farm for themselves and then allocating land so that they can do so would be insurmountable and would probably result in mass deaths.
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I dunno about Agrarian - but I think we are almost there Industrialy/Corporately. The power over the avarage wage-earner that big business has is fringhtening...
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