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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
I could imagine a fantasy society with few beggars, for example, because the majority of the people who would have been beggars make a better living being a ceremonial assistant than they would as a beggar.
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Interesting. However, if even beggars could make a good living, the ramifications would still shift the economics to a new state.
More and more it seems to me in our modern society of plenty that economics is much less about productivity and wealth and more about creating hierarchies and control. Even if everyone were highly skilled in the latest demanding technologies, there is a strong need to keep the masses "down" so as to ensure the power of the insecure elites, for better or worse.