The thought struck me that today, we have gone back to feudalism and looking around, found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism#Enclosures_and_the_transition_from_feudalism
I don't think we have transitioned from feudalism at all. Instead of pandering to the nobles, it's pandering to "business interests". Business interests has always been the occupation of nobility. We've just switched castles and fiefdoms and serfs with corporations and markets and consumers. The method of enforcement switched from the knights to intellectual property.
How did we ever fall for "trickle down theory"? Trickle down was always how feudalism worked. Now we've somehow convinced ourselves that all the rights we wrestled from the nobility is detrimental to us. That we should keep the new nobility happy in order for economic wealth to trickle back down to us?
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