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I have a really hard time naming any law that benefited the common people the most. Usually a good law will end up expanding the number of people who are elite

I have a really hard time naming any law that benefited the common people the most. Usually a good law will end up expanding the number of people who are elite, but still give marginal benefit to the commoner. For example, statutory jurisprudence as opposed to rule by nobility, let people who were only good at trading become part of the elite. Previously you had to also have a private army, in order to be elite.

pm90 6y ago
Labor laws greatly expanded protections for the commoners, as did Social Security and other welfare programs.
- bergstromm466 6y ago
  > commoners When you use the word 'commoners', is this akin to the word consumers, in contrast to producers - who make and invent the things commoners/consumers buy and use? I'm asking because this definition comes up from Wikipedia: "Commoner: The common people, also known as the common man, commoners, or the masses, are the ordinary people in a community or nation who lack any significant social status, especially those who are members of neither royalty, nobility, the clergy, nor any member of the aristocracy." > Labor laws greatly expanded protections for the commoners, as did Social Security and other welfare programs. Many argue those post-war gains are being wiped out [1] [1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-class-rise-of-populism/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-clas... or video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnYhZCUYOxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnYhZCUYOxs