So what does this all mean?

It means that #Marx and #Riccardo, and #HenryGeorge were all correct.

There is no workable system of #Capitalism that will not become some form of #Manorialism then #LateStageCapitalism and finally #Fasicsm.

Here I'm defining Capitalism specifically a any system that allows arbitrarily large wealth accumulation.

I do not think there is any possible purely #political nor purely #economic solution. Rather, every solution proposed must inherently be a #PoliticalEconomy that is resistant to the accumulation of power and a political system that is resistant to the accumulation of power.

Do I think #Marxist #Socialism is such a system? No! Absolutely not. I think #HenryGeorge was prescient when he called #Marxism a recipe for #Authoritarianism.

Marx never proposed a political system that was even moderately robust to corruption.

Likewise, I think preventing returns to capital is bad. We _want_ individual people to invest their surplus into making bursts of short term profit. That is the actual value add capitalism brings.

Assuming you had a political system resistant to corruption, then #Taxes are a possible solution. One could, for example, place a small tax on wealth, creating gravitational pressure of the returns to capital. Set to the right level, this should be able to resist massive wealth accumulation.

I'll have to save my thoughts on political systems to later.

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Now, feudalism isn't a straightforward proposition. Like, are you *sure* you mean feudalism? Maybe you mean "#manorialism" (they're easy to mix up):

https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-the-digital-manor/

Plus, much of what we know about the "#DarkAges" comes from grifter doofuses like #Voltaire, a man who was capable of dismissing the 800 year #HolyRomanEmpire with a single quip ("neither holy, roman, nor an empire"). But the reality is a lot more complicated, gnarly and interesting.

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