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So what's the threshold separating "rich" from "poor"? What laws apply to me if my net worth fluctuates around that threshold? Different laws depending on the d

• thaumasiotes 11y ago
  That was just phrasing. The principle isn't that we enshrine a division between rich and poor. The principle is that separate communities enforce their own norms among themselves. It happens that separate communities may differ systematically in many ways, including wealth. But taking premodern England as an example, all of the aristocracy would belong to the same group, while different impoverished villages across the country would not share a unified system; they'd all have their own systems, because unlike the aristocracy, they don't have much to do with one another. The laws applying to you are those of the community you belong to, irrespective of your net worth. If you want to change them, you need to be accepted by a different community (and then go live among them). The traditional way of doing that is to marry in.