Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "VIVEK RAWASWAMY DEBATES COMMUNISTS OUTSIDE OF THE DNC" video.

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  6. ​ @Ghastlyteaparty  ​I think you are very much underestimating just how organized they were. Maybe look into things like the Domesday Book, pipe rolls, close rolls, patent rolls, Inquisitions post mortem, etc. Like the owner of a large private company, a monarch did delegate. They had their upper management (nobles) who, in turn, had their own lower management (sheriffs, tax collectors, game wardens, etc.). The monarch kept very very close track of who was running their lands for them, the upper management. Each level of the hierarchy only had to keep track of the level just below them, so the monarch didn't have to keep track of the peasantry. Each level would keep track of the level below, and it would be the lowest level of local Lord, or their henchmen, who would know all the peasants under their charge. The nobles basically leased the land, from the monarch, for X amount per year. They, in turn, assigned the lower management to extract that amount from the peasantry, plus whatever profits they wanted for themselves. Serfs were not living some lovely communal life, with all kinds of time off. They were basically indentured servants, tied to the land, and each had their own individual annual debts to pay. The ownership hierarchy made profits from the labor of the masses. They made profits off of sales by the much smaller merchant class in their lands. They made profits off of people traveling through their lands (tolls). Seeing as they were also the justice system, they also made profits from fining people. The ownership hierarchy had their hands in everything, and the working masses owned nothing.
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