Clergy is the one I would say most breaks the dichotomy.
All the others listed still lack the title and privileges that come with nobility. There is some nuance I skipped over: different laws for urban citizens vs rural peasants. But a peasant could become an urban citizen by fleeing their land and living in a city for a year and a day, after which their former lord could no longer claim them.
If we’re going by the historical use of the term, yes.
At the beginning of the early modern period, you had two classes: peasants and aristocrats. You were born into your class and that was that. But early industrialization lead to a funny thing; people who were born peasants, yet through owning things like mines or factories, had amassed enough wealth to rival (and sometimes surpass) the aristocracy. Aristocrats derisively refereed to these wealthy peasants as “The Middle Class”.
If you were to show an aristocrat our present world, they’d tell you we’re ruled by their middle class.
go buy bread and sanitizing wipes with satisfaction
How’s it work then?
I mean it’s someone’s job to approve and allocate the funds month to month. I doubt they’re getting payed right now, though…
That is how fiat currency works.
With how the lake is drying up, yes.
d-pad d-pad d-pad please…!
oh come the fuck on
So we’re not all that removed from a database of citizens and their faces. The work of actually collecting that information is already done, it’s just a matter of organizing it. And there are already private contractors who specialize in just that kind of data organization.
Doesn’t the NSA have exabytes (at a minimum) of data scrapped from the internet?
Europeans bemoaning brain-drain that’s working in their favor…
I love having capital, now if only there weren’t all this pesky labor.
Any meritocratic system becomes an informal aristocracy after a generation or two. And aristocrats are so notoriously good at understanding the systems that facilitate and keep them in power…
More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don’t debate God, you don’t test God, and you definitely don’t force God’s hand.
Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.
the effects were nice, the sets memorable, the costuming was good
too bad it was a boring slog that kinda soured any desire I had to go back and see the first one again
So what is this “objective” perspective? Could you break it down like you broke down the subjective one?
well, some of the bulbs probably survived, at least
When I was on facebook back then, I would see boomers making posts talking about the 1950s in the same way.
Eh, it’s not like the current ones were all that good anyway