| Let me show you how close to feudalism this idea is: Serfs are free to renegotiate their constitution, move, buy land from their king, or start their own kingdom. Now all these options sound a little more silly... Because we accept the power structure of feudalism. But many doubt there is any power structure in capitalism. Landless wage labourers? Yes. Debt based economies? Yes. Taxes given as handouts to the owners? Yes. The differences between the structure of two are far more subtle than most people like to believe. We are at a point on political democracy, that's great - but economically we are still kinda stuck in the 1700s ... We could try to democratize that too. Part of the problem is that neoliberalism suggests that everyone should act like an entrepreneur, a CEO if you will. This is actually as silly as implying that if everyone acted like a prince or princess in feudalism, it would have been a fair system. But you point to the "self made man". Statistically speaking, those are about as rare as someone marrying into royalty in classical feudalism. Pointing to that fact of course, didn't make feudalism fair either. There's a real, leaky (they all are), power structure imposed by the system that can't be undone by the power of magical thinking. |
We need to hurry up and restore all the monarchies of the world because we are living on stolen property.
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