Again, from an American perspective - good luck finding an altruistic zillionaire like that.
Maybe it's different across the pond. 🤷
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Again, from an American perspective - good luck finding an altruistic zillionaire like that. Maybe it's different across the pond. 🤷 8 comments
For clarification, I write non of that with any expectation of it actually happening or being implemented. Just drawing board suggestions and musings on possible solutions. Whatever we do or don't do won't matter in a few decades. 3C will hit us before any changes are made, and then it's all moot. |
@504DR The trick is convincing they're helping the poor out of pure, unfettered, egoism.
This has been done before, too. It was the basis of patron-client relations in the Roman Republic for several centuries, for example. And in the Ireland's era of many little kings, a king's essential duty, in return for being allowed to call themselves a king, was feeding and equipping his whole retinue, which, IIRC, was specified as at least fourteen people with nothing better to do than follow their would-be king around.
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@504DR The trick is convincing they're helping the poor out of pure, unfettered, egoism.
This has been done before, too. It was the basis of patron-client relations in the Roman Republic for several centuries, for example. And in the Ireland's era of many little kings, a king's essential duty, in return for being allowed to call themselves a king, was feeding and equipping his whole retinue, which, IIRC, was specified as at least fourteen people with nothing better to do than follow their would-be king around.