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Personal ownership is just as bad. That leads to OG feudalism.
I wasn't advocating personal ownership either. But how does that lead to OG feudalism?
Wealth inequality trends to increase over time. Without some system that actively redistributes wealth, eventually a few people own everything of value, and ordinary people are obligated to do whatever the lords want in order to gain access to the material resources they need to survive. That's feudalism.
You mean like how it is right now?
Can you name me one single time in human history that this wasn't just the condition of the human race? Every time humans try to institute a wealth redistribution mechanism it becomes corrupted in less than 70 years and it just becomes feudalism again where the people are impoverished and starving and the only people living well are state officials lol
Every pre-agricultural society? I'm not saying they didn't have their own problems, but feudalism wasn't one of them.
Small scale hunting and gathering societies are universally egalitarian because it's impossible for any one person to accumulate significant wealth or to control resources. The way members of such societies gain influence therefore is through virtue and personal merit. This is the social system that we evolved to live in over hundreds of thousands of years, and it's why we still haven't figured out an equally amenable replacement in the mere ten thousand years since we adopted agriculture.
That said, for better or worse, agriculture is a trap, and once we adopted it, there was never any going back, so we have no choice but to keep trying with what we have.
Were I not lazy, I'd be willing to bet if I sift through their comments that I'd find something about landlords being bad.
They don’t like feudalism? ohhh noooooo.
Well, utilizing a little thing called "context clues" you can see that I'm very clearly not talking about the person I'm responding to. I'm talking about the person claiming private ownership would be better.
My point, is the hypocrisy. But I get it, over half of America reads below a 6th grade level. Ya'll need help getting there.
What hypocrisy have you unearthed?
"Were I not lazy"
I get it, you don't read.
Well, you called it with me. I was denied an education so I could work and support my family.
Horrah. Good on you. Very observant.