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Good God, Bertil, don't be daft. Peasants are like children. They love to frighten one another.
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― L'âge d'or. Volume 1
― L'âge d'or. Volume 1
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As I pointed out, feudalism is essentially a redistributive system. Peasants and craftsmen produce things to a large extent autonomously; lords siphon off a share of what they produce, usually by dint of some complex set of legal rights and traditions ("direct-juro-political extraction" is the technical phrase I learned in college), and then go about portioning out shares of the loot to their own staff, flunkies, warriors, retainers - and to a lesser extent, by sponsoring feasts and festivals an
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― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
