Late Cycle Capitalism

[Martin Hash]

Post Modernism, Marxism, is not a new attraction. It finds acceptance among those whose expectations of their success in life collide with reality. In fact, from a purely practical, self-interested perspective, Marxists, who's expectations were set by living with their Boomer parents, and are now living with 3 roommates who share a cellphone plan before heading off to their part-time job as baristas, would see their material lives improved under Marxist tenets. American Capitalism, where "2nd Place is the first loser," has created WAY too many losers for a democracy to handle.

[Speaker to Animals]

Go read Albion's Seed and 11 Nations of America.

If I *had* to choose between colonial America and medieval England, I am choosing medieval England.

[Martin Hash]

Religious batshittery aside, the Americans I actually could live with were the Quakers. If I had to choose any American nation, just send me to Nantucket. I will become a fighting Quaker; a Quaker with a vengeance.

The Amish take converts.

[Fife]

Fake history.

What? Didn't you know that the Hundred Years' War was fucking awesome, dude? Nonstop drinking, eating, fucking; a real party for all involved. The bosses just wanted to be sure that the common folk were treated nicely and had famous hot chicks like Joan of Arc to party with, and then burn at the stake.

And lots of baths.

[Speaker to Animals]

According to Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, before capitalism was invented in the 19th century people mainly worked very leisurely days.

In a paper titled The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, Schor said: 'A typical working day in the medieval period stretched from dawn to dusk work was intermittent - called to a halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner.

'Depending on time and place, there were also mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.'

And while their working day was easier, according to Schor, they also had far less of them.

She said: 'The medieval calendar was filled with holidays - official [church] holidays included not only long "vacations" at Christmas, Easter and midsummer but also numerous saints' and rest days.

'In addition to official celebrations, there were often weeks' worth of ales - to mark important life events (bride ales or wake ales) as well as less momentous occasions (scot ale, lamb ale, and hock ale).

'All told, holiday leisure time in medieval England took up probably about one-third of the year.'

As well as these days off for religious and celebratory purposes, evidence has also shown that people used to take further days off as well.

In her essay, the professor revealed that records from 13th century England show many families only worked 150 days a year on their land and in the 14th century, even servants often only worked 175 days a year.

Compare that to the fact that American workers took an average of 16.2 days of vacation in 2015, according to Project: Time Off, and suddenly medieval England doesn't seem so bad after all.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/trav ... loyee.html

[GloryofGreece]

Its a form of usury imo and needs to stop. But whatever we are all about making money in this country. Nothing binds this nation together. Not religion, race, or culture. Base motivations are what we have in common and that's about it.

They should just not have access to the check cashing services they want? They don't want to go to banks, are you going to cash their checks? A flat fee of 4% for check cashing isn't usury anyway.

Any additional charge is usury. No I don't care what definition to fish up online. Yes its interpreted differently. Originally what was meant by usury was in fact any additional charge. Thank you and good bye.

[Speaker to Animals]

It is often thought that medieval men and women did not care too much about personal hygiene or keeping clean. One nineteenth-century historian writing about daily life in the Middle Ages commented that there were no baths for a thousand years. However, a closer look shows that baths and bathing were actually quite common in the Middle Ages, but in a different way than one might expect.

http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did ... ake-baths/

[DBTrek]

People in modern Somalia work even fewer days.
Fucking paradise.

[Speaker to Animals]

People had objectively better lives in medieval England than they ever did in colonial America. Not even close.

Don't be fucking ridiculous.

[Martin Hash]

According to Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, before capitalism was invented in the 19th century people mainly worked very leisurely days.

In a paper titled The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, Schor said: 'A typical working day in the medieval period stretched from dawn to dusk work was intermittent - called to a halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner.

'Depending on time and place, there were also mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.'

And while their working day was easier, according to Schor, they also had far less of them.

She said: 'The medieval calendar was filled with holidays - official [church] holidays included not only long "vacations" at Christmas, Easter and midsummer but also numerous saints' and rest days.

'In addition to official celebrations, there were often weeks' worth of ales - to mark important life events (bride ales or wake ales) as well as less momentous occasions (scot ale, lamb ale, and hock ale).

'All told, holiday leisure time in medieval England took up probably about one-third of the year.'

As well as these days off for religious and celebratory purposes, evidence has also shown that people used to take further days off as well.

In her essay, the professor revealed that records from 13th century England show many families only worked 150 days a year on their land and in the 14th century, even servants often only worked 175 days a year.

Compare that to the fact that American workers took an average of 16.2 days of vacation in 2015, according to Project: Time Off, and suddenly medieval England doesn't seem so bad after all.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/trav ... loyee.html

Dude, that sounds like Mexico today. You need to visit there and have a siesta. You're definitely in the wrong country, man.