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Could you give an example of that level of comfort? Servants were more common back then, but not sure what else.
by ipsum2 6y ago
Could you give an example of that level of comfort? Servants were more common back then, but not sure what else.
- danans 6y agoMost likely that you had enough wealth and owned enough productive land or other capital to secure the lifestyle of your progeny for generations to come.
- hatenberg 6y agoSo like Fred Trump
- danans 6y agoProbably, but he's far from alone. It's practically the definition of what the nobility and the gentry/bourgeoisie have in common. In contrast, workers and professionals must sell their personal skills in the labor market to survive. Unless they are extremely lucky, opportunistic, and hardworking and doing so become part of the gentry, their children will have to do the same.
- vmception 6y agoFor example, the family that was able to exploit the socioeconomic order to pick up those land plots from people indicted for witchcraft probably still owns those land plots, but new people will not be able to use the same tactic to obtain land now.
- eirini1 6y agomaybe not witchcraft accusations per se, but im quite unsure how you can be aware of events occuring in the world right now and think that exploiting the current socioeconomic order to gain land and wealth is not done.
- vmception 6y agoRight it wouldn’t be a witch craft accusation , in the west Its one example
- Fjolsvith 6y agoPedophilia.
- viraptor 6y agoAre you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse
- justinclift 6y agoSeems more a case of "use whatever the hot topic is for circumventing rational thought". Recent version could be something like this: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin... Or any of the other modern topics people have mentioned. It'd need to be combined with having the ability and intent to acquire the property of the targeted people. In the above example, being the people don't seem to really own much/any property anyway, maybe it's harder than it first looks?
- zentropia 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Mashal_Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Mashal_Khan A student accuses the University staff of corruption and end killed by a mob for blasphemy.
- Thorrez 6y agoThat sounds more like a technique to attain comfort rather than a comfort level itself.
- pjc50 6y agoThis is more or less how the Israeli "settlements" work; land is taken for "security" reasons and given to someone else. The Russian privatization post Communism also handed a large amount of state resources to the well connected, who are now in many ways more entrenched than they were under Communism.
- sudosysgen 6y agoMuch more. Even under the CPSU public opinion could change and you could be ousted. If you're an oligarch unless you die what you control, you control.
- bsanr2 6y agoSomething something Manifest Destiny. Also, the Great Land Robbery (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-la...). The Western model of land ownership is perhaps necessary for our way of life, but is certainly at the root of any number of atrocities.
- achillesheels 6y agoExcept that the Israeli “settlements” are on previously annexed land from 1967. It is more like an eminent domain seizure. And it is quite reasonable in theory to exercise sovereign power for such purposes to improve the land’s cultivation, so long as compensation is awarded (not sure if Israel gives it to the Palestinians)
- wodenokoto 6y agoThat’s not a level of comfort that’s a level of corruption.
- Mary-Jane 6y agoEminent Domain.