Message from @charles watson
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It still looks like everyone is mining and output is the same or less.
But he has more so he gets rewarded.
And can give you some of it.
work rewarded is mostly "I worked here longer" rather than "I am more effective at this job"
@charles watson yep
See teachers.
they want people to feel included, very feminine type decisions
@charles watson bring back real feudalism and you get crazy shit.
Like the king of England declaring himself "imperial"
I definetly think we lost a lot of good things from the past
Or other people saying theyre the king as they have a bigger army than the king.
That's basically Rome. The population supported the Emperor against the vaguely democratic Senate every time.
Well if you had enough wealth and military experience, you could get real power.
And they would rather have had the military be the only root to real power under an autocrat.
people not born to hold power probably shouldn't be given power
@charles watson but that never worked.
indeed, kings would often surround themselves with people of ignoble heritage
It has produced the same amount of incompetent people as elections
Maybe less as the son that's incompetent tends to get killed and replaced.
Appointing your number 2 seems to work best.
well there was definetly some disorder that lead to becoming more democratic, but it still would have been preferable to maintain the older order
But your heir has to actually be your number 2 and effective at it.
With monarchy, if you do not have an adult male heir already doing part of your job, then you have failed.
And your kid will suck almost always.
That's how you end up with Aethelred the Unready or Nicholas II or Louis XVI or Commodus.
Or Caligula
Or Dominitian who just pissed people off.
Or Richard and John
Or William II, Henry I,
Totally incompetent pieces of shit.
what about Henry VIII?
Henry VIII was very competent as was Elizabeth and James I. Charles I was a fucking idiot
The problem was Henry VIII had no heir.
If he could hand his absolute monarchy to his #2 and have him marry his daughter, that would be a lot better but he couldn't
What was your issue with Henry I?
Henry I had like 30 kids and none of them a real heir
Which caused a massive civil war.
As he attempted to make his daughter queen and stephen said nuh uh
So you had actual anarchy.
wow, amazing how something like that can happen
I didn't much like Elizabeth I, but I'd need to read more about her again perhaps