On Monday, December 22, 2014 9:03:26 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: > > On 23 December 2014 at 00:07, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Modern societies provide more potential freedom, for sure. I could > theoretically travel to almost any part of the world I desire and be there > having breakfast before Christmas. > > Do modern societies provide more real freedom? Consider the life of the > peasants under european medieval feudalism. The modern view on this part of > history is that peasants had much more free time to use as they pleased in > comparison to modern middle class workers. > > It was brutal, feudalism, under the Normans. The sea-change came in the aftermath of the the Plague, basically because so many people died, there weren't enough little people to go around. The elites moved fast clamp everything down. But a new force even more powerful dorce - this one of had been born Nature. The supply/demand imbalance plague left in its wake had invented Market Forces in the modern era.
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