[tw04]

> and we are going to learn just how impossible it is as western society slowly collapses under the weight of its own social programs.

Social programs aren’t what’s causing western society to collapse. Wealth consolidation on the other hand…

[lucketone]

Wealth was quite consolidated when most population were peasants.

[tw04]

The wealth distribution in England in the 1500s had the top 1% controlling roughly 25% of the wealth.

The top 1% in America today controls roughly 32% of the wealth.

Tell us more about the peasants who got significant time off because the ruling class knew endless work resulted in an unhappy populace.

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...