Timeline for How can a society ensure farmland is not concentrated in the hands of the wealthy?
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| Oct 18, 2018 at 23:57 | comment | added | ShadoCat | @jean, exactly. Any organization, no matter the ideals with which it is formed, will eventually be run by people who want to have, keep, and grow power. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 19:53 | comment | added | jean | @ShadoCat I agree and communism was, in theory a way to achieve power distribuition but ended backfiring, meaning even if you is a genious and invent a new form of goods prodution your system will not be better than the people actually in charge of implementing and managing it | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 19:21 | comment | added | ShadoCat | @Alexander, also will the city state with a bunch of small farmers who can do whatever they want compete well against a city state that controls its farmers? I'm thinking Sparta here. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 19:19 | comment | added | ShadoCat | @Alexander, exactly. It also depends on how you define corruption. It is easier for a city council to interact with one (or a few) representatives of the farmers. It almost always boils down to a concentration of power over time. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 18:49 | comment | added | Alexander | If understand the premise correctly, the goal is for city council to prevent plutocracy. If government provides law enforcement, then the farmers and land are all but irrelevant, and the real problem is how the council would prevent its own corruption. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 18:40 | comment | added | ShadoCat | @Alexander. No reason at all. That's what happens when the farmers ask someone to protect their lands. The reality is that whatever group is protecting them will become wealthy and then has the power to command them. Remember that the premise is a new Dark Ages city state. City 1 needs to control its farmland to keep City 2 from controlling it. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 18:31 | comment | added | Alexander | Why can't the government collect taxes from farmers and supply law enforcement (like it's typically been happening in history)? | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 18:29 | history | answered | ShadoCat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |