Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "The Birth of China - The Dawn of Inequality (5000 to 3000 BCE)" video.

@SECONDQUEST the title is referring to the advent of social strata in Chinese social history. It’s about China, not claiming inequality was a sole Chinese institution or even the first. That would be the city-states of Sumeria as far as recorded history goes
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Touché but no that was a Western systemic social construct due to industrialization and the relations that were formulated from that. Capitalism is a particular mode of organizing production and distribution relations
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To be fair I found nothing wrong with it as the title to me suggest the dawn of inequality in Chinese social history as that is the period being covered. Some folks are reading it like China invented global inequality but there’s nothing to suggest that. I will say that adding a “in China” afterwards would have cleared up the meaning. The title does little in suggesting anything negative other than what will be discussed is the rise of social inequality in China. Just about every civilization has a dawn of inequality period where social strata became rigid and hierarchic
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If this is a dig at Chinese society and some sense of Western superiority not only has inequality been a problem in social systems throughout world history, but Western societies have always struggle with equality just the same and to this day classism is still a thing. And let’s be real social issues are still prevalent with a focus on traditional hierarchies that were never truly divested
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