Land annexation is the appearance, but the absence of social security is the essence
Historical Cyclical Law: Land Annexation Is Only a Symptom, Social Security Is the Key In the past, historians often believed that land annexation was the main cause of the phenomenon of historical cyclical law.
However, in fact, it is the annexation of the means of production that is the manifestation of the Matthew effect. In the agrarian era, this was the annexation of land; In the industrial age, it was the merger of factories and companies.
So, does the merger of the means of production lead to monopoly capitalism necessarily leading to the cyclical law of history? In fact, the example of the American farmer speaks for itself. They lost their land, but they were able to work in factories, and if they couldn't, there was a subsidy from the state.
This reveals that an important means for European and American countries to truly avoid uprisings at the bottom is social security at the bottom. The essence of social security is the redistribution of wealth, the distribution of money from the rich who annexed land to help the poor.
But why are the rich willing to help the underclass? This requires the rule of law function to play a role, coordinate various interest departments, provide corresponding social security to the bottom, redistribute wealth, and prevent monopoly in a timely manner, so as to eliminate the Matthew effect of the means of production and prevent the people at the bottom from using violence to redistribute wealth.
Whether it is a land merger, a factory merger, or a future robot merger, it is necessary to collect taxes from a small number of people and robots, and provide basic social security to the bottom.
And all this requires democracy and the rule of law to coordinate the overall interests, otherwise the people will not trust **, how to perform their functions? Therefore, procedural justice under the rule of law becomes particularly important.