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Where is this place going?
Oct. 20th, 2010 11:20 pmHonestly, it seems that two of the main areas of economic growth are:
1. Armed force, including militaries, paramilitaries, police, prisons, espionage, etc.
2. Intellectual rent-seeking. With the resulting censorship.
I don't think this is turning into a feudalism of the copymight-holding class. I think it stretches the definition of feudalism to apply the term before the seventh century or after the seventeenth. I do worry that it might turn into an analogue of the aristocratic regimes in post-feudal Europe: what we might call neo-feudalism in France or Russia, among other places.
1. Armed force, including militaries, paramilitaries, police, prisons, espionage, etc.
2. Intellectual rent-seeking. With the resulting censorship.
I don't think this is turning into a feudalism of the copymight-holding class. I think it stretches the definition of feudalism to apply the term before the seventh century or after the seventeenth. I do worry that it might turn into an analogue of the aristocratic regimes in post-feudal Europe: what we might call neo-feudalism in France or Russia, among other places.
