5 December

When we got rid of slaves, who did the work they were doing instead? We did, there was nobody else. Abolition of slavery was the distribution of work to more people. Instead of masters and slaves, everybody became a slave to everybody else. That mutual reliance upon each other to do all of the work is freedom. How could it not be? All pitching in. The opposite to what the libertarians say, who live a fantasy of completely separate individuals. They’re the new masters, dreaming of standing by why the rest of us do all the work.