Did you not live in the world before owning a tiny piece of it?
This same land ownership argument was made in the 1640s, and then again in the 1770s, all to limit the rights of poor people in favor of the rich landlords.
The rich assholes won the English civil wars, mostly because the opposition didn’t know what the hell they wanted or how to get it. And then Oliver Cromwell died without preparing any sort of successor.
The new American government, having eventually learned its lesson, quickly abandoned the land ownership requirements for voting because it never made any god damn sense in the first place, and was just a way to keep poor people down, and the poor had just learned how to wage a war on absentee landlords.
I did, but I lived in the optimism that my work ethic would easily win me a stable place within it. It was only after several moves, moving up a few rungs in the ladder, and hitting my late thirties did I realise what a crock it all was.
Also I’m not advocating that landowners are the only ones who should vote, the Earl Gray sat through that mess in the 1830s. I’m saying that one’s emotionally driven feelings towards the system subsides somewhat when one is persecuted less by it, which makes sense.
It is though. The bitterness I felt for the world subsided (a little) once I felt I had a stake in it.
Bootlicker answer I know, but its true
Did you not live in the world before owning a tiny piece of it?
This same land ownership argument was made in the 1640s, and then again in the 1770s, all to limit the rights of poor people in favor of the rich landlords.
The rich assholes won the English civil wars, mostly because the opposition didn’t know what the hell they wanted or how to get it. And then Oliver Cromwell died without preparing any sort of successor.
The new American government, having eventually learned its lesson, quickly abandoned the land ownership requirements for voting because it never made any god damn sense in the first place, and was just a way to keep poor people down, and the poor had just learned how to wage a war on absentee landlords.
the smugglers and slavers that started the american civil war over taxes they didn’t want to pay were all landowners too
I did, but I lived in the optimism that my work ethic would easily win me a stable place within it. It was only after several moves, moving up a few rungs in the ladder, and hitting my late thirties did I realise what a crock it all was.
Also I’m not advocating that landowners are the only ones who should vote, the Earl Gray sat through that mess in the 1830s. I’m saying that one’s emotionally driven feelings towards the system subsides somewhat when one is persecuted less by it, which makes sense.