What Is Monarchy?

Carol: Didn't the whole thing of slavery begin by just lazy wite people? And once they realized how lucrative it was, it became lazy, greedy white people. Tom: I would put it in a slightly different frame, carol, because a lot of the people who owned slaves and profited from slaves were probably working more than an eight hour day. This was capitalism at its peak. If you can get the labor for free, you are the richest capitalist around,. as opposed to having to pay for the labor. It's arguably the most brutal form of capitalism the world has ever seen.