good point

absolutely no class mobility

if you were born into a serf you would stay that way

yeah, class mobility is unnecessary

I don't like serfdom, however

it leads to stangnation

you lose a lot of intelligent people and have idiots ruling

plus it leads to discontent

and possible riots

in materialist societies, yes

you do realize that class moblitiy is needed to make sure the best are at the top and the worst at the bottom

that's where our main divergances are, it would seem

you would slow down society heavily if you forced scientists to plow fields and idiots work at the lab

class collaboration is better

make the elites answer to the state

meritocracy, nobody is unnaturally held down

or kept up

Heritability of the qualifications of leadership solves this.

each person should be where they are meant to

meritocracy is unstable

heritablity isnt much

I don't like the idea of a state

No, it's unstable because it doesn't truly exist

a lot of monarchies have failed due to the incompetence of their leaders

^

cause mostly competence is a learned factor

internal conflict within the aristocracy adds another factor to their right to rule

It's a combination of it and genetics, but yes

then another thing

without one, you cannot have the other

nobles are breed and born to rule

You may be predisposed to being more competent, but if you are not in the proper environment, you will never be

it's no guarantee

from the moment they can talk to the day they die

Genetics are no guarantee*

they learn how to rule from their parents, who themselves learned how to from theirs

hundreds of generations worth of wisdom

not really

once society expanded the influence of the monarchy severely decreased

because they werent ready to manage at a large scale

@The Big Oof LOL he called Mussolini a free market capitalist