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Chapter 9 (Birth of Oppression)
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History: The Grand Scenario
We live in a world which, while providing wealth for some, sentences most to poverty. What forced history along this line of ever-growing disparity?
The Idyllic State: An Agrarian Economy of Nomads and Farmers
The idyllic society is inherently unstable and hence transitory: not through any systematic flaw, but because of the self-seeking motive which drives human behaviour.
Community-Based Markets: The Labourer is Free But Dispossessed
Advancing technology reduce the labour required to work an estate. In consequence, former bound labourers are jettisoned into regional labour pools without land or means.
The Middleman: An Absorptive Barrier Between Producer and Consumer
Expanding markets threw artisans into competition. Out of the fray emerged an economic class, whom serendipity made rich upon the labours of their former peers.
Noble Capitalist: Had The Means To Bring Into Being The Global Market
With his large steady income from rents and crops, the noble estate-owner has lots of time on his hands and lots money to spend.
Noble Estate: A Socio-Economy Maintained by an Oppressive Hierarchy
The settler fences the land, depriving the wanderer of his hunting ground. This triggers conflict in which the wanderer eventually dispossesses and subjugates the settler.
Theft: A Notion Far From Being The Moral Absolute Which Most Suppose
The wanderer's view that what is 'just there' is rightly for the taking is manifest in the modern world, particularly with regard to intellectual property.
The Lost Inheritance, Chapter 9: Structure
Legal Infrastructure - is it really necessary?
People can live peacefully in natural communities without a legal infrastructure.

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