
The story that follows from Wood’s treatment in Natchez to her relocation to Texas, from freedom to compensation is as thrilling and windy as any tale fit for the silver screen. Her life sits at the nexus of chattel slavery, the prison industrial complex, restitution, and most…
In this system, China was the key supplier of material goods, and India the key supplier of services. Walmart was nothing in the 80s, and then in the 90s and 00s, it grew to prominence and power, largely by becoming a Chinese trading outpost, cramming giant warehouses with ultra cheap Chinese goods. America’s technology and finance industries grew wealthy, too, by “outsourcing” programming and whatnot to India.
…mega-maximized for capitalists, too, because they pay people a pittance, and build huge monopolies. And with greater profits — don’t ask how, because American economists and pundits have never explained — comes more freedom and democracy.