You uh, miss the majority of the fucking comment which challenges your initial absurd claim that I objected to?

People in the ancient world often sold themselves into slavery to stay alive.

People don’t sell themselves into fucking slavery because they’re only moderately impoverished and fear just being a little bit hungry.

The idea that there was no extreme poverty in the ancient world is utterly bizarre and against everything we know about ancient societies and economies.

You seem to have missed the part where Smith would tell you to stop cockgobbling capitalism when it has served its intended purpose by the mid 1800s and move on.

"Cockgobbling capitalism is when you point out that poverty, starvation, and homelessness predate capitalism, and that feudal and clientistic societies are the ones in the modern day which continue to experience mass starvation, not developed capitalist societies, whose cultivation of a proletariat creates an independent power base for organized workers to demand certain minimum protections and sets up the possibility of a socialist future"

Wacky declarations are no replacement for actual historical context and facts.

I'm sorry, just to be clear - are you disputing that people in the ancient world often sold themselves into slavery to avoid starvation?

Do you want me to start citing legal codes and chroniclers? Because I can. But I want to make sure that when you start pissing about playing dumb that everyone sees you got what you fucking asked for.