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by misterhill 350 days ago
A lot of people survive and tolerate a lifestyle that comes from these redistributions of things to people who no longer have direct access to means of survival like water and land. You really have to qualify what you mean in better.

Many rich people with heads should consider that the current situation is making things better than the next version of the French Revolution.
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logicchains 350 days ago
>Many rich people with heads should consider that the current situation is making things better than the next version of the French Revolution.

The French Revolution was a revolution against the French government, and its high tax policies.

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skywal_l 350 days ago
No. It was a revolution against a regime where the rich paid NO taxes.

Article 9 of the august decree – Fiscal privileges in the payment of taxes were abolished forever. Taxes were to be collected from all the citizens, in exactly the same manner, and plans were to be considered to set up a new method of tax collection. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_feudalism_in_Fran...

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