• janNatan@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Why is the lady almost the same color as tom? I don’t remember this being a furry show.

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      If I recall, the ‘maid’ was a feline character of a black mammy stereotype. But I haven’t seen this cartoon since the 80s, for obvious reasons.

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          Because it was blatantly racist. I only saw it on a VHS of various cartoons from the 50s-60s that my southern grandparents probably bought at a truck stop not knowing what was on it.

          There was also a cartoon where the main character was an explorer being chased by charicatures of indigenous natives that wanted nothing more than to poke him with spears and cook him in a pot.

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, I was thinking maybe the Luddites/weavers might be the first job loss victims but you’re probably right.

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        7 hours ago

        In bronze age, there were no jobs. People did what had to be done collectively and had a lot of leisure time

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          7 hours ago

          I think you might mean quite a bit earlier than the bronze age? I’m not an expert by any means but my understanding is that the Egyptian bureaucracy and a tax system meant that slaves could build the pyramids in the bronze age.

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            Yes, it’s more complicated than I have painted it. There was stratification, kings and slave and all in between. But there was no wage labor. You are either paid for the product or you’re enslaved but you’re not temporarily unemployed or lose your job. You don’t lose your job to automation, your just done earlier

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            My understanding is that the “built by slaves” theory is a bit outdated. The pharaoh had access to a massive population and outside of harvest stations could be engaged in construction efforts. Slaves were very likely part of it too but not the majority of the workforce

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    8 hours ago

    And in the end it still couldn’t outdo Tom. Just like how a certain modern “invention” will never be abkentk fully outdo professionals.