In the rough French revolution context is basically the same as today:
* huge debts contracted by gvt;
* unfair repartition of the fiscality (the 1% wealthiest don't pay in proportion to their income);
* producers (the 10% wealthiest) are not able to produce anymore because fiscality is to high;
The convocation of "tiers etats" that triggered the revolution was about asking how to make the repartition of fiscality more fair.
the 1% wealthier said we don't care we don't pay and you can't change the system anyway because we make the rules and they "mouhahaha"ed
The remaining said, okay, are you losing your head (saracasm and irony)? and they said to the other europeans 1% (germans, brits, dutch, spanish)... Oh btw, we are not a kingdom anymore. As a result, we dont have anymore debts. Go fuck yourselves
The banks were pissed off and they said: WUT! Debts are to be honored, if people begin to think that money don't rule the world the world is doomed.
Thus the coalitions against France, battles (Valmy), Napoleon tricking Italia in Republic and then betraying them so that the bankers got another ennemy ...
I forgot the part where producers were also asking for the state to ensure a 'fair competition' based on merit and not birth.
Now, takes Forbes top 500 fortunes of the world and tell me how much people are not xth generation dynasty kids.
I love Bill Gates he has a lot of merit, one of which is being well borned.
We do have a meritocratic system, but this system is biased because he is mainly accessible through birth.
This is the definition of a society based on casts. We are regressing in the name of a so called "liberalism" that looks like the "communism" of Lenin : an implementation that contradict the purpose.
Our political systems are wrong implementations of good ideas. How can we repeatedly fail that much collectively?
In the rough French revolution context is basically the same as today: * huge debts contracted by gvt; * unfair repartition of the fiscality (the 1% wealthiest don't pay in proportion to their income); * producers (the 10% wealthiest) are not able to produce anymore because fiscality is to high;
The convocation of "tiers etats" that triggered the revolution was about asking how to make the repartition of fiscality more fair.
the 1% wealthier said we don't care we don't pay and you can't change the system anyway because we make the rules and they "mouhahaha"ed The remaining said, okay, are you losing your head (saracasm and irony)? and they said to the other europeans 1% (germans, brits, dutch, spanish)... Oh btw, we are not a kingdom anymore. As a result, we dont have anymore debts. Go fuck yourselves
The banks were pissed off and they said: WUT! Debts are to be honored, if people begin to think that money don't rule the world the world is doomed.
Thus the coalitions against France, battles (Valmy), Napoleon tricking Italia in Republic and then betraying them so that the bankers got another ennemy ...
And here we are, in the same situation again.