[dragonwriter]

> but I have bumped into hundreds of Germans who have more money than they could spend in 10 lifetimes

Yes, those people are part of the class of ”masters”, and the money is the means by which they direct others to serve them. (Foregoing members of the “master” class have set up the mechanisms by which control can be applied, and other current members of the class spend some time supervising and directing maintenance of those mechanisms, but there are masters who just use the mechanisms without worrying about them.)

Being in the class of masters isn't the same as living in a masterless society.

[drb91]

Only by reducing “master” to nearly meaningless as a distinct term. I’m not sure what the conversation gains from that.

Anyway, there was never a claim to a masterless society, only a free individual.

[gowld]

By that definition almost everyone is a master over someone.