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In reply to the discussion: Could "The Anti-Christ" possibly be all those sociopaths in high positions in corporations & gov't? [View all]Cal33
(7,018 posts)and more direct method was used: The king told his nobles how much he was going
to tax each one of them, and the nobles, in turn, told their peasants how much taxes
they needed from each one of them. When the need for money was great, the taxes were
high (such as during times of war), and many of the peasants (or serfs) often did not
have enough to eat. In addition, the male children of age were conscripted into the army.
You can be sure that Royalty and nobility never had to starve. The serfs did. Whatever
money they needed they taxed from their peasants, who bore the brunt of the hardship,
while the nobility did not suffer at all. They were the privileged ones.
It's easy to see that right-wingers are trying to bring back those "good old days" today --
and with themselves as the nobility.