our modern Pharaohs, Emperors and Kings simply move their production facilities to a nation that hasn't gained those expensive worker-rights yet.
That's absolutely true... For now! Because they are running out of countries to keep this musical chair game going... So that reminds me of two points made by Yuval Noah Harari in Homo Deus. He said in it that the people were of two use to the governments: make stuff and make war. But nowadays... They don't even need people for that, they have drones and they have robots (I paraphrase). So... The lower-classes are losing all kind of usefulness in the eyes of the "superior" classes :-/
Maybe, maybe not. and in the meantime they're normalizing sub-standard wages in the developed countries as well. And it's not as if they choose to pay the lowest possible wages; it's them following the rules of capitalism, competition and economic growth. I don't blame the people per se; it's the age old ideology that separates society in the two classes that has to change... If we don't, robots will do all the work, and we will get a UBI, which will then be "shut-up-money" to keep the masses peaceful; give them enough to not complain too much, but never allow them in the club of the upper class.
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Yeah! The UBI is exactly where David Graeber ends up his book with. It reminds me a bit of the "annonae" of the Roman Empire, the subsidized distribution of grain to the plebs to keep them happy and sated. But as you say, i don't think either it's a satisfying long-term measure.
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Indeed; most people think that economical and financial governance as we know it is fairly young; it isn't. The Romans even devaluated their money by adding cheap metals to their gold and silver coins... Thanks again for responding my friend :-)
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