Reposted by Mos Iceland Container Store
One thing that happened after Obamacare passed is that it made it much easier for star workers to leave for startups and the ruling class HATES this (they want entrepeneurship and the pathway to the upper class restricted exclusively to their class and their kids)
![The first discussions with Raphael allow him to discuss some of the modern ills affecting Europe such as the tendency of kings to start wars and the subsequent loss of money on fruitless endeavours. He also criticises the use of execution to punish theft by saying that thieves might as well murder whom they rob, to remove witnesses, if the punishment is going to be the same, the abstract principle being "never to make it safer to follow out an evil plan than to repent of it."[11] He lays most of the problems of theft on the practice of enclosure, the enclosing of common land, and the subsequent poverty and starvation of people who are denied access to land because of sheep farming.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ftkgoinoyluy542jm2i6kcju/bafkreieapnwo3wcaqaxrnnwp65mwyzt4l3y2gdsc42jpkp4pl46ap7tdq4)
