Post-mercantile, pre-industrial Capitalism
was founded on slavery, which was founded
on ships and navigation.
Then came the Industrial Revolution,
which really should be called the Industrial
Global Pogrom of craftsmen/women/children,
founded on colonial exploitation,
which was founded on improved navigation.
The rich became fewer and fewer,
richer and richer, so that
at the end there were less than a hundred
who owned and bickered over the drowned
and screaming, burnt-up world
before they barricaded themselves
and perished underground.
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