• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    History of the world, tbh. First it was hundredaires, then thousandaires, then millionaires, now billionaires. Eventually it will be trillionaires, and so on.

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      2 months ago

      I mean, you’re not wrong, but it’s worth remembering that the scale of the difference has never been so radical. The wealth gap is wider than it has ever been.

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        2 months ago

        Is it, though? Is it wider than a king’s wealth versus a serf’s? The scale is different I agree, but is the proportion, really?

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Well, no, feudalism was actually fundamentally different. Power didn’t come from money, it came from land and alliances and shit.