Pst... my threads aren’t random.
A few people have told me they appreciate the randomness of my threads.
Some threads seem like they’re social justice-y.
Some threads seem like they’re about making money.
They’re actually all about labor, wealth, and inequality.
A few people have told me they appreciate the randomness of my threads.
Some threads seem like they’re social justice-y.
Some threads seem like they’re about making money.
They’re actually all about labor, wealth, and inequality.
2/ Take my thread on Home Children. Canada used over 100,000 children as indentured slaves.
We’re told they were shipped to 🇨🇦 for a better life.
BS.
They were shipped because 🇨🇦 needed *cheap* labor.
Criminals were literally sent to do the same thing as punishment.
We’re told they were shipped to 🇨🇦 for a better life.
BS.
They were shipped because 🇨🇦 needed *cheap* labor.
Criminals were literally sent to do the same thing as punishment.
https://twitter.com/stephenpunwasi/status/1324020259746127875
3/ It’s actually a thread on how the early European Canadians got a head start on the backs of others.
A similar lesson is found in my thread on HBC. They weren’t here to find homies, they were a company looking to pillage and plunder.
A similar lesson is found in my thread on HBC. They weren’t here to find homies, they were a company looking to pillage and plunder.
https://twitter.com/stephenpunwasi/status/1306609010767024133
4/ Thread on sewing machine?
It’s about how middle class people are trained to be downstream liquidity for rich investors, aka how they make money.
Then those people need to exploit poor people to survive with the bag they’re holding.
It’s about how middle class people are trained to be downstream liquidity for rich investors, aka how they make money.
Then those people need to exploit poor people to survive with the bag they’re holding.
https://twitter.com/stephenpunwasi/status/1294485243173515264
5/ Thread on the RCMP?
Actually about how the wealthy used an occupying force to steal from First Nations.
Actually about how the wealthy used an occupying force to steal from First Nations.
https://twitter.com/StephenPunwasi/status/1318206298886995974
6/ Diamond thread?
Actually about how a whole industry was built on selling shiny useless rocks, while pretending slavery didn’t exist.
Actually about how a whole industry was built on selling shiny useless rocks, while pretending slavery didn’t exist.
https://twitter.com/stephenpunwasi/status/1315465053529927682
7/ Anyway, all of the above examples boil down to one thing - the super rich had a head start, built on the backs of slaves.
Sometimes they lie about how they got that start.
You can make a decent amount of money working hard, but...
Sometimes they lie about how they got that start.
You can make a decent amount of money working hard, but...
8/ You can’t make the amount of money, with the amount of ease, a lot of these families have.
They cheated, then told you’re just not playing the ethical game long enough.
That means structural inequalities will persist, and get worse as you follow the fake narrative.
They cheated, then told you’re just not playing the ethical game long enough.
That means structural inequalities will persist, and get worse as you follow the fake narrative.
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