- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
Reposting because it was removed from another comm earlier for the political content.
Reposting because it was removed from another comm earlier for the political content.
“Render unto Caesar” seems to be the opposite. He said to stop owning shit.
He said to give up the coin they have and no longer use money between them. To share freely, so that Cesar couldn’t extract tax income from them in any way
When the tax man shows up, you give them whatever they want and leave them frustrated. You return the coins you have to Cesar, and without stockpiles of goods the tax man would have to go house to house collecting random goods. You have no money to take, no grainary to take a portion of
An empire can’t run off taking miscellaneous things from each pantry
Yeah the concept of coins was still a very political topic at the time. They were a relatively recent invention that completely changed how society interacted
… What? No they weren’t
Anyways, it’s not about coins, it’s about taxes. Taxes can be collected in the form of currency or in bulk goods
If you don’t have any coins or bulk storage, your community is not economically productive for whoever owns the territory. There’s nothing to take
But infrastructure must me maintained anyways, an empire lives and dies on it’s roads