• @[email protected]
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    129 months ago

    Don’t you slander the ferengi like that! Their economic system is mega fucked, but it is at least honest about that and consistent.

    They have a specific code of (business) conduct they for the most part always adhere to, and no ferengi will cry foul when someone else fucks them over as long as it’s done according to the rules.

    And as Quark points out in that one episode, we did and do a bunch of barbaric things the ferengi never did because they wouldn’t go that far, like slavery and genocide.

    • @Delta_V
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      219 months ago

      The Ferengi totally do slavery, they just lie to themselves about indentured servitude and jobs that pay less than a living wage being not-slavery.

    • @AA5B
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      149 months ago

      They say they don’t do slavery but hen you hear how they regard feeeeemales

      • @AllonzeeLV
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        149 months ago

        That’s the fun mental trick slavers have used since slavery has existed:

        “Slavery can’t be bad if you don’t consider the class of people you enslave to be people at all.”

      • @bi_tux
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        29 months ago

        that’s not really slavery, since the feeeemales aren’t/weren’t allowed to work outside of the household

          • @bi_tux
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            -19 months ago

            on the one side it was meant as a “but that’s different” parodie, but there are some differences between slavery in history and the way ferengi treat freeeemales