People have always been peasants in a feudal system. The mechanism just changes. In the Middle Ages, you turned over a portion of your crops to your lord. Today, you pay a portion of your wages towards taxes which pays for interest on limitless debt which causes money to flow up the hierarchy.

Before usurious income tax there was sharecropping and tariffs and literal slavery. Places and times where people were relatively independent are the exception. I say independent because low taxation implies less government to pay for and thus less provided by the government. In this case people had to support themselves. That would be like pioneers, and that's not a system that lasts.

People have always been peasants in a feudal system. The mechanism just changes. In the Middle Ages, you turned over a portion of your crops to your lord. Today, you pay a portion of your wages towards taxes which pays for interest on limitless debt which causes money to flow up the hierarchy.

Before usurious income tax there was sharecropping and tariffs and literal slavery. Places and times where people were relatively independent are the exception. I say independent because low taxation implies less government to pay for and thus less provided by the government. In this case people had to support themselves.

People have always been peasants in a feudal system. The mechanism just changes. In the Middle Ages, you turned over a portion of your crops to your lord. Today, you pay a portion of your wages towards taxes which pays for interest on limitless debt which causes money to flow up the hierarchy.

Before usurious income tax there was sharecropping and tariffs and literal slavery. Places and times where people were relatively independent are the exception.