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> I'd have good friends, no need to worry about political plots. You'd have to worry about what you leave to your kids. "Prime and Prejudice" comes to mind. If
by credit_guy 4y ago
> I'd have good friends, no need to worry about political plots.
You'd have to worry about what you leave to your kids. "Prime and Prejudice" comes to mind. If you didn't have a male heir, your estate might go to some distant relative. Even if you had, your kids who were not your first born son would only inherit a tiny fraction of your wealth. One or two generations down the line, their offspring will be destitute.
- mxkopy 4y agoStill, I'd have plenty of time to worry about those things. In fact that would probably be my "job" - developing, maintaining, and expanding the estate that I would eventually leave to my kids.
- credit_guy 4y agoYes, but in a world without growth, this was a zero-sum game. If you won at that game, it was only because someone else lost.
- mxkopy 4y agoNo coincidence of wants is also a requisite for zero-sum. If my estate were used primarily for logging, but people also found it beautiful, I could teach my children how to manage a hostel business and increase its value without devaluing anything else. Also, who's to say the world isn't zero-sum now? I'm certainly feeling squeezed, even with all this supposed growth and modernity.
- atq2119 4y agoDoes "hostel business" in this sense and "medieval era" really go together?
- owlninja 4y agoIs this not slavery?