“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. t is an act of justice...

Using your own money to help others : Charity

Using the force of law to take money from one group of people to give to another group: Theft

Poverty is a direct product of the system. It's a way in which the rich keep society in line in capitalism. Worrying about.paying your bills your next meal etc keeps you from rebelling.

Not being able to work: Disability

Relying on others to pay your way because you choose not to work: Sloth

Socialism first appeared in the Americas in 1607. The colony of Jamestown decided that everyone would get an equal share of the crops whether they labored or not. Half the population died of starvation that winter. In the Spring, they marked out a plot of land for every colonist who became responsible for growing their own food. No one starved that Winter.

Colonialism genocide slavery yeah the good old days that set the foundation for the primitive accumulation of capital

@mark94

“In 1607 the Jamestown settlers arrived in Virginia during a severe drought

The settlers also arrived too late in the year to get crops planted. Many in the group were either gentlemen unused to work or their manservants, both equally unaccustomed to the hard labor demanded by the harsh task of carving out a viable colony.

Two-thirds of the settlers died before ships arrived in 1608 with supplies.

A Third Supply mission of 1609 was to be by far the largest and best equipped.

While the Third Supply was stranded in Bermuda, the colony at Jamestown was in even worse shape. In the "Starving Time" of 1609–1610, the Jamestown settlers faced rampant starvation for want of additional provisions.

Only 60 of the original 214 settlers at Jamestown survived, they had to turn to cannibalism during the starving time to survive.

Aha due to the aristocratic backgrounds of many of the new colonists, a historic drought and the communal nature of their work load, progress through the first few years was inconsistent at best.

By 1613, six years after Jamestown's founding, the organizers and shareholders of the Virginia Company were desperate to increase the efficiency and profitability of the struggling colony.

Without stockholder consent the Governor, Sir Thomas Dale, assigned 3-acre (12,000 m2) plots to its "ancient planters" and smaller plots to the settlement's later arrivals.

Measurable economic progress was made, and the settlers began expanding their planting to land belonging to local native tribes.

That this turnaround coincided with the end of a drought that had begun the year before the English settlers' arrival probably indicates multiple factors were involved besides the colonists' ineptitude.

Due to the high cost of the trans-Atlantic voyage at this time, many English settlers came to Jamestown as indentured servants: in exchange for the passage, room, board, and the promise of land or money, these immigrants would agree to work for three to seven years.

Immigrants from continental Europe, mainly Germans, were usually redemptioners—they purchased some portion of their voyage on credit and, upon arrival, borrowed or entered into a work contract to pay the remainder of their voyage costs.[

Centuries of domination attained through occupation and economic exploitation of black, brown, and indigenous people: White Privileged America

^ Go play with your dick pic collection and fuck yourself! I can't wait until Founder once again gets tired of your BS and bans you again! FUCKHEAD!

Haters are angry, because the truth contradicts the lie they live...

^ Lol, FUCKHEAD!

Get a fucking job and shut up. There's no caste system keeping anyone down.

“For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.”

~ Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey aka Frederick Douglass in a July 4th speech in 1852 ~ Born February 14, 1817 Cordova, Maryland, U.S. ~ Died February 20, 1895 Washington, D.C., U.S.