“Pragmatists”: Who’s Gonna Pick the Cotton!?
DLIVE VIDEO IS HERE, thumbnails not working recently, for some reason: 
Saying that societal models based on consent and voluntary interaction are unfeasible and unrealistic, and thus impossible, is the same conversation had hundreds of years ago in the agricultural industry:
I know holding slaves is wrong, but the reality is that slavery is real, and the agricutural industry needs the work to be done, or thousands will suffer and the industry will collapse. Without the slaves, who would pick the cotton?
The answer? It doesn’t fucking matter.
Societal systems based on ISO (individual self-ownership) are not only infinitely more practical (do you know of any successful economy based solely on an authoritarian system of value?) more importantly—and this is the critical issue—societal systems based on the perceived “necessity” of violence are always morally wrong, and unethical.
That is, unless you think violating non-violent people is okay.
~KafkA
My video is at DLive
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DLive and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
The practical thing to do is eat, drink, sleep defecate, reproduce and die like animals. Why invent? Why progress? why do anything better and have principles?
My answer: Because I can. and because I refuse to level with a bunch of animals.
"The practical thing to do is eat, drink, sleep defecate, reproduce and die like animals."
That already describes the vast majority of the human population!
It's pretty much like there are 2(or more) different species. I mean people process their information differently and act differently. How many people got to know about cryptos and how many invested?
Some fits the general model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
while others go in a completely different path: https://steemit.com/inspiration/@vimukthi/7-inspirational-examples-of-the-better-alternative-to-social-justice-and-communism-the-heroic-spirit-of-the-poor-who-do-not-beg
Great post, followed.
"Can you imagine slaves on a plantation sitting around voting for masters and spending their energy on campaigning and candidates when they could be heading for the underground railway?"
-Samuel E Konkin III, The New Libertarian Manifesto, 4th ed. 2006
You don't have to imagine. Look out of a window of any democratic nation.
Death to Democracy!!!
As far as to how bad slavery was back in the days when it was legal, a picture speaks a thousand words.
Thank you, brother. This is very important for people to see.
Buenisimo....
First they have to leave the plantation... Not many can make the jump from the E to the I.
I think modern technology makes slavery not profitable indeed. Not that slavery was moral under any conditions, but during ancient times, it might be profitable, but still amoral thing