Meet Your New Feudal Overlords

Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 8 months ago to Government
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This article has a lot of things right, but it basically blames capitalism, and since government had effectively made capitalism unprofitable using regulations, we don't have capitalism.
Other than that the article does point out a lot of results that happened due to government interventions. They don't point out that this has been going on since 1913 when the federal reserve act gave the banking cartel control of government and began the widespread debt slavery of the People.It is a return to feudalism. It was the plan and it has taken over 100 years, but the plan has succeeded.
How many people today ever pay off their mortgages?

Excerpt:
"Classic feudalism was a system where a wealthy land-owning nobility (the 1%) controlled the peasant class of workers known as serfs (everyone else). The elites provided serfs with a small piece of land on which to live. Although they paid taxes, generally, serfs owned no property, had no economic power or upward mobility. During the Middle Ages, as much as 90% of Europe’s population fell into this category.
Sound familiar?
I admit it’s not a perfect comparison, but it’s something worth considering — especially given what’s happening not just with housing but with land ownership in general. In our system, owning real estate is the most common vehicle for wealth accumulation. So what happens when only the wealthiest Americans can afford to own property?"
SOURCE URL: https://gen.medium.com/meet-your-new-feudal-overlords-e18709541d61


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  • Posted by $ Abaco 2 years, 8 months ago
    This makes a good point. I'm looking at selling vs. renting a home. I think I'll keep it and rent it. Rent is already double what it should be. With all these shenanigans it should be 3x, 4x shortly. My dad used to say, "Make it Section 8 and let em tear it down!" Haha!!!
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 8 months ago
    What the author doesn't take into account is capitalistic societies are dynamic in the fact wealth moves around. Perhaps not as fast as the author would like, but still much faster than government (royal) controlled systems. He laments that Bill Gates has bought up farm land and other properties, but when Gates dies you'll see some kind of breakup or eventual squandering of that accumulation in succeeding generations (unless government is brought to intervene in some way). Government (royal) grabs and control can span multiple lifetimes and do seem to last forever. Ayn Rand covered this in AS by illustrating wealth retention through generations via Francisco d'Anconia (capitalist responsibility - or not) and James Taggart (government edict). In capitalist USA not many 19th century fortunes survived intact through the 20th century.

    Socialist/Communist governments are far more akin to feudalism than capitalist free countries. As the US and other Western countries become more socialist/communist they will become for feudal.
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    • Posted by $ Abaco 2 years, 8 months ago
      You're assuming we'll remain capitalistic? Just asking - I'm open minded about it.
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      • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 8 months ago
        "You're assuming we'll remain capitalistic?" IMHO, the trend towards socialism/communism indicates a no. Back in the '50s and '60s Ayn Rand pointed out we (the USA) are a mixed economy that was mainly free market capitalist that had growing crony capitalist and socialist/communist components. The way I see it, the more the government and cronies meddle and bully the less free we'll be with the trend moving away from capitalism and freedom in general. I believe one of the main causes of this is the ignorance of the larger portion of the population in that they don't know what capitalism is and they have come to believe it is something it isn't. The American education system has totally failed in regards to this.
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