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If you steal from the poor,

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you become rich. If you steal from the wealthy,

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you go to prison. Correct.

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If you go into the till at work and you steal $5 and you get caught,

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you're going to jail. But if you,

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as an employer, steal $600,000 from your employees,

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no jail. The worst that will happen to you

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is that you might have to pay it back.

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That's it. And that's because in America,

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we have sumptuary laws. What the hell is a sumptuary law?

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Sumptuary laws were set of laws

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developed during the medieval time period,

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especially in Europe, that limited ownership of land,

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what kind of clothing you could wear,

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what jewelry you couldn't couldn't wear.

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You couldn't get white bread if you weren't part of the noble class.

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You couldn't hunt deer or bore,

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stuff like that. At its core,

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this was a set of laws that distinguished between poor and nobles.

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This was an incredibly strict class system.

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You might be asking yourself

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what caused these laws to come into effect?

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It's always the plague. Most accounts estimate that a third of Europe

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was devastated by the plague.

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It didn't matter who you were.

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If you were noble, if you were a peasant,

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one in three people was gone.

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Feudal system that people had lived under for hundreds of years

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had been broken apart. A lot of peasants found social mobility because,

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A, their feudal lord was gone.

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Or B, there was a massive Hole in the labor system,

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and they needed to fill it,

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so they allowed people to move around.

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People were not allowed to move around in feudal Europe

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until this happened.

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A lot of social upheaval happened because of the population decline.

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There was a brief time period

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where peasants were able to move up in social stature because of this,

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and the nobles hated that.

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Sound familiar? In America,

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if you own a business,

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you are allowed to commit a certain amount of crimes

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that is directly proportional to what your business is worth.

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You can commit all the wage stuff that you want as a business,

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but as an employee, you may never,

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ever do that. In fact,

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they'll arrest you. That's because we have sumptuary laws.

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They don't call them that,

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but that's what they are. It's the same thing as medieval Europe.

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Also, I would like to add how ridiculously easy it was for me to find,

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like, stories to match up with what I was saying.

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Very, very easy.

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Now, of course,

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it wasn't just medieval Europe and modern America doing these things.

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India had the caste system.

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It's over 3,000 years old.

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It is the strictest class system in human history.

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You could not leave one of these levels you were in.

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It was impossible.

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This is the system that the oligarchs in America want.

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How do I know this is what they want?

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Because they're all in love with this guy right here.

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His name is Curtis Jarvin.

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This dude looks like the bad guy from Sin City.

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Really? Who he is?

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He was one of the original internet and cells.

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He got a start in Unix, and then from there

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he got mad that normal people were using the internet.

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And then he just started writing on sub stack,

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and eventually he got a pretty big following.

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Basically, this guy's idea was that normal people are scum

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and they should be lorded over by a ruling class. Uh,

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sort of like the Medici in, uh,

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Europe during the Renaissance.

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That's really what he wants.

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He wants that, but with, like,

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an Indian style caste system where it's very,

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very strict. He wants city states owned by companies and oligarchs.

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And, of course, the vice president of the United States of America,

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Pogue Boot, JD Vance,

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is his biggest fan. Ultimately,

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this guy is the thought leader for the.

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All right, I'm just putting him back up here to creep you out,

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but he calls his philosophy the Dark Enlightenment.

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They are cartoon supervillains.

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The other day, the C E O.

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Of Palantir came out with this manifesto

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where he basically espoused all the ideas

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that Curtis Yarvin put forth.

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They're doing it. It's happening right now.

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This isn't some, like,

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conspiracy off in the wilderness.

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This is happening to us right now.

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Guys like Jeff Bezos had to make concessions during COVID

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that allowed for people to escape the social stratification

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that they Had carefully laid in place.

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Everything that we're seeing in this country right now

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is a direct result of guys like this and their wounded egos.

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That's why they abandon all pretense and seize this country.

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They're doing it to us, in our face and laughing about it.

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This is the exact moment

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that some summary laws in America became codified,

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and the new social stratification became very, very real.