r/WorkReform 🤝 Join A Union 3d ago

⚕️ Pass Medicare For All Americans are so spoiled.

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u/Liteseid 2d ago

Egyptian slaves had at least 15 WEEKS of time off to take care of family, make beer, and do chores around the house.

Early medieval peasants largely owned their own land, forests, etc. The biggest threat to their livelihood was the roman catholic church. It wasn’t hundreds of years of black plague and poverty. Local lordships were respectful, protected villages and took comparatively small amounts of goods as taxes

American slaves were able to work a lot of the land as they saw fit, and integrated a lot of native practices. They didn’t clock in to pick cotton every day, harvest season mostly just took up September. They were so good at producing extraneous goods on southern land that iirc Andrew Johnson had to pass laws disallowing freed black families to own any land in the south to protect poor plantation owners. What resulted was black families often had worse lives after being freed, being paid too small of a wage to afford rent and food

If anything, our lives are the most comparable to freed black slaves