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Herring 2 hours ago

I think the antidote to hate is about active generosity, more than just passive tolerance. Whenever this topic comes up I’ve noticed a deep underlying thirst for money/power, which capitalism tends to aggravate.

Europeans/Americans didn’t load up tens of millions of Africans in slave ships because they hated them. They did it because it was extremely lucrative. The 19th-century Mississippi River Valley had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the US. https://www.history.com/articles/slavery-profitable-southern...

That area is poor nowadays because all that wealth was just extracted, with very little invested back.