>>21361468>Repressive as in you can't spout your mouth in a liberal sense about sex? Repressive in all senses. Economic freedom, economic equality, freedom of speech, individual liberty. In this case specifically, repressive in the sense that people outside of the elite are not allowed to have a high standard of living.
>Any leader sucking its population dry doesn't last long.But this is what the worst governments invariably do. When someone has power, they have two goals. 1) keep the power 2) take all you can from those who don't have the power. Notice the order of the two. You can't let those you're oppressing get too strong, rich or happy, even if that means you could extract more resources out of them. They might threaten your position. It's better to settle for smaller, faster, even diminishing returns. The improvement we've seen over time has been the result of a power struggle in which the masses have gradually won ground from the elites.
>You sound like an ACAB leftist.Well I'm not.
>How the fuck did you make that leap?I was pretty explicit there. You think the fact that we have an institution for something is evidence that it didn't come "naturally" and hence was not a part of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. That follows.