On March 1, 2015 10:51:09 AM brian carroll <electromagnetize@gmail.com> wrote:

perhaps the institutionalization of 'royal perks' explains in part the necessity of a one-party governing system, where any actual opposition (politics) are then managed and absorbed into this model, to protect/secure/maintain aristocratic lifestyles otherwise threatened by actual change, where the focus of issues of subsidy then becomes the poor:

"hark! peasants are drinking wine, wine!! with Our Money!"

(in a top-down surveillance context, who benefits/profits most?)

^ This +100. Very prescient; I could not have put it any better.