History did not begin with a workers’ uprising against greedy factory owners. It began with aristocrats furious that ordinary men could finally earn more than a peasant’s wage. The first class warriors were not laborers — they were lords. When capitalism started lifting the poor, the privileged revolted, not to protect the weak, but to preserve their own place at the top. The great scandal of capitalism was not poverty; it was the escape from poverty.
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