Also they didn't even have to kill them all, a bunch just saw the writing on the wall and gave up their land willingly, in some cases even joining the revolutionaries. Many of whom received an equal share of the land during the reforms after the revolution.
Newton did not "invent" gravity, it is an immutable law of the universe, no more did Marx "invent" socialism or the labor theory of value.
In both cases they observed actions and reactions that were testable and quantifiable and in both cases they were not the only ones to reach the same conclusions.
If anything the Gould quote is saying the opposite. That having so many people confined and coerced into such labors for the sole purpose of maximizing profits for a single individual, we are robbing ourselves of many great minds.
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"
You definitely did not get banned for the reason you stated. You're in fact doing the thing you got banned for right now by trying to define nonbinary people as not being a gender. I don't know if you are a troll or just nitpicky to the point of invalidating other people's experiences but in no way is hexbear transphobic.
Some of your critique is valid and warranted but the person I was referring to implied that I was being contrarian which is not at all what I was doing.
I was simply expanding on why this sort of enshitification occurs.
"least x y" is typically used sarcastically/ironically and if that was not the case and they misunderstood the joke they themselves made then I appologize.
Honestly way less afraid of China snooping on my data than US corporations. Only one of those groups regularly colludes with the FBI/CIA/other three letter agencies.
This is pretty disingenuous. Most of those comments don't pour in until after someone ignores a well sourced informative critique, then people selectively ignore said effort posts and selectively reply to people just dunking on them for refusing to read.
As Trudge said I am sadly aware of too many people stanning Pol Pot or the Shining Path. We gotta always be aware of those among us that have problematic takes. Patsocs being another extreme example.
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Also they didn't even have to kill them all, a bunch just saw the writing on the wall and gave up their land willingly, in some cases even joining the revolutionaries. Many of whom received an equal share of the land during the reforms after the revolution.