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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
The slave trade has everything to do with capitalism.
The point of capitalism is to make as much profit as possible. If you don't have to pay your workers then you can make maximum profit.
If you disagree please tell me what the slave trade resulted from and why my post is wrong. Then give the definition of capitalism and how the two (capitalism and slave trade) are unrelated.
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Wrong. The point of capitalism is the free exchange of goods or money on a value for value basis. When the first caveman traded food for animal skins to stay warm, capitalism was born. Naturally, each party in a transaction will try to get the most for themselves at the least cost.
Slavery did not result from capitalism. It resulted from people like you, who think rights are not part of natural law and who think rights come from "society". It was these people who captured others and sold them into slavery, and these people who bought them.
The buying and selling of slaves had nothing whatsoever to do with capitalism because it has nothing to do with the free exchange of goods. Human beings aren't "goods" even if "society" says so.