The Law of Scarcity. An economic phenomenon. If you wish to make people desperate, impose scarcity on them. Not only does this make them desperate, it also makes them more rational. You might argue that a man in a desperate situation does stupid things, but I would argue the opposite. A man in a desperate situation does desperate things, which is rational. If someone threatens to kill you and you kill him first, how is that not rational? Would it be more rational to let him kill you so that you stay on the right side of the Law? What use is the law when your floating in the Quantum Field with no individual consciousness, beyond the institutions and vanities of the living Realm? Some would argue that the industrial revolution lured serf farmers off their lands and into the growing cities of England because the wages earned in the cities was better than the subsistence living made on the Lords farms. However, I would argue that the Lords gained the most from the industrial revolution. Once droves of serfs were emancipated and living in the cities, work became scarce but so did resources that the workers needed to live, so the competitive wage rate fell to equalize with the previous farming subsistence wage, making them no better off and indeed worse off since they now could not grow their own food and breathe the fresh country air they once enjoyed. They could not return to their old farm plots because they were emancipated, meaning that the Lords could charge his tenants (no longer servants) rents, and the Lord would only acquire a tenant that was highly productive. Emancipation made us debt-bondage slaves, rather than owned serfs. Which is better? You are still a debt-bondage slave. So you tell me. Did the emancipation of serfdom really free us? What is Chattel Slavery? economistsview.typepad/economistsview/2006/06/what_ended_serf.html
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:37:36 +0000
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