I would argue itโs not new and has been used before.
Priest/commercial class ruling elite whose line does not fight or produce has happened many times:
-Carthage
-Papal states
-Tibetan Dalai Lamas
-Pharaonic Egypt
-Hasmonean Judah
-Maya cities
-etc
Country is run by a priest class that psychologically manipulates the society. everyone else is either canon fodder or a tax slave.
The general trend is a warrior elite creates a society and civilization. Then a priest/commercial class subverts and wrecks it. Then warrior class picks up the pieces again.
Just in: Airlink Embraers flew dangerously low over DHL Stadium in Cape Town
Video was backed by FlightRadar 24 data, which hinted they were as low as 50 ft AGL
Source Reddit @aero_in
๐จ HISTORY THREAD: In 1909, a city of 237,000 people carved 250 acres out of old-growth forest and built a world's fair.
White Beaux-Arts pavilions under Douglas firs. Cascading pools pointed directly at Mount Rainier. 3.7 million visitors in 138 days.
This is the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Most people in Seattle have never heard of it ๐งตโ
There are a lot of great American cities that have been tragically mismanaged, as the whole country has been tragically mismanaged for about 30 years now.
But golly, Seattle has *really* been neglected compared to what it could be:
"But the high-water mark of mass-freedom...horses and donkeys are in the habit of wandering the streets with total freedom, noses in the air, barging into any passer-by who fails to get out of their way. Itโs all like that โ all full of freedom."
Benefits a just a middle man's scam.
Get rid of all of them - lets just pay people a salary that makes sense and they can budget their own setup.
Instead we have to sign up for all this crap and let other companies/ppl/gov skim off what should be a bilateral transaction.