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  • finitebanjo@piefed.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneGet rule
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    7 hours ago

    Houses actually makes a lot of sense. A king has four houses in the metaphorical sense of noble families, a man has two houses, their own and their spouse’s, and the beggar has no house.

    Of course it reads less like a riddle you’d hear from a children’s party clown and more like a line from Machiavelli.






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    21 hours ago

    Well technically no, that would be something between a Laissez Faire Capitalism and a regular Aristocracy.

    A real King in a true Monarchy owns all, his citizens are just living in it, so a king would have 1, a man would have 0, and a beggar would have 0. Kings had the full authority to swap the possessions and statuses of any man and beggar at any time for no reason.