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Who from history would you bring back to make them punished for the wrongs that they brought onto the world? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 2 months ago by Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Mine is Henry Ford. He's the catalyst of the 40 hour work week and 5 days a week that has been standard to the present day. Because we're seeing now how little that really does for anyone anymore, where people are having to sacrifice more of their freedom to work second jobs or more hours than they should.

I don't think it's his fault directly for those reasons, but him thinking the 40 hour/5 day a week plan is a good one is just a poor reading into the future with the way it's gone since the establishment.

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[โ€“] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Man, a hard choice here.

I'll go with Columbus. It takes a special kind of motherfucker to arrive in an unknown country, observe peaceful people living in tranquility, and your first thought THAT YOU EVEN WROTE DOWN was: "Holy fuck I can steal all their shit if I want to."

And then you go on to make them basically extinct.

[โ€“] pyre@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and you're so horrible that even your colonialist home is like "dude are you fucking crazy"