should I do an article compare/contrast-ing merovingian/carolingian francia with the ideal of ancapistan
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the vaunted "exit" was in full force, a simple ceremony in front of a judge was all it took to unilaterally divest yourself from your family
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however doing so was for good reason widely considered unwise. the clan-bond is what protected you from predation in absence of "public order"
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also fun fact, gallo-romans being subject peoples were made to pay tax, but franks were exempt. as fighting men, they paid their dues to their leader in blood
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this created a powerful association of taxpaying with servility. by the carolingian era there was no taxation at all, would remain so until the hundred years
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in relatively stateless places today (tribal pakistan, gangs that operate outside the law within states) this is still true
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yea I was idly wondering how somalia compares actually
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idk how well it maps though, afaik it's much more pastoral than agricultural so controlling territory might not have the same value for warlords
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Right, like how white people in US prisons join neo-Nazi gangs for fear of dying if they don't choose a gang (and the black and Latino gangs don't want them). But divide-and-rule on the part of the guards is a major factor there.
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