From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Martin Edwards wrote:   
      
   > The analogy is not quite empty though.   
      
   In context?   
      
   > Amalgamation of estates,   
   > dependence on slaves, though in the modern economy the slaves are   
   > machines.  The human equivalent are the perioikoi in the gig economy.   
   > Above all there is the massive concentration of wealth and the   
   > impoverishment of the masses at a time when it would be possible for   
   > everyone to live in modest comfort.  Somewhere in the forest the tree   
   > was growing..........   
      
   I agree fully. But the piece seems to be claiming that the problem is   
   handing out free stuff to those impoverished, disenfranchised   
   masses -- not that they've been impoverished & disenfranchised.   
      
      
      
      
      
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