What really caused the civil war?

Originally posted by LeeTheDestroyer
Like it has been said before, state power vs fed power was the main topic of the civil war. Simple as that. The south was raped of its resources by the fed while the north benefited from the government.

My biggest issue with this is how people personify southern slave owners as downright terrible inhumane people. How does anyone know that? Just because someone is part of a "tyrranical system" does not mean that they themselves are terrible people. Take a step back and look at society today.
The system that the majority of Americans live under is very similar to the slavery system of the past. There are two differences, there is no discrimination, and instead of working for "the man" and given a home and food and the necessities (and the associated physical slave treatment), we now work for "the man" and are given money, with which we use to by a home, food, and the necessities (and associated government taxation of our income). They just added a middle man to the system and say it isnt slavery. The system in place is much the same, its still a labor market where labor is exchanged for what we have a God given right to have. Well I say our system is not all that different, really, think about it.
Some day in the future when people look back at our "tyrranical system" and say "those CEO's and the like were terrible people, enslaving the population by using low wages as the middle man to have THE SAME NET EFFECT as direct slavery..." We know that that isnt the case, as I am sure some did back then. Sure many top men are in fact less then reputable people, there are a good deal of those who arnt. Take the biggest philanthropist there is for example, Bill Gates, is he a terrible person? or is he just a person who is part of a tyrannical system.

If you want to argue that slaves were property... and we are not. Honestly think about it. They were openly traded and treated as property, maybe we are not, but we are directed to jobs and postions that we can fill, replaced by those more efficient, replaced like a broken piece of property, and move on to another position that we are qualified to fill, and the process repeats.

The system has not changed, it has adapted to conceal itself from scrutiny and opposition, but is still there none the less.

Actually, slaves had it a little better: the masters were not allowed to "free" them once they were too old to work anymore, and just cast them out into the street, like they do now. Think you're gonna get any "socialist security"?