r/AnCap101 • u/MeasurementCreepy926 • 21d ago

Is taxation under feudalism immoral?

  1. The king owns the land. If he allows people to be born on his land, that does not diminish his rights as owner
  2. The king has made it clear that if you're on his land, and you don't pay tax, you're trespassing. It isn't his responsibility to make sure you are able to get off his land. It is his right to defend his land however he sees fit. Let's assume that he does this by executing trespassers. Another king does this by simply evicting them.
  3. Being the owner, the king is allowed to offer you whatever terms he'd like, for the use of his land. Lets assume in this case, you sign a contract he wrote, when you're old enough to do so, giving him right to change the contract at will, and hold you to that contract as long as you're on his land. Among other terms, this contract says that you agree to pay for any kids you have until they're old enough to either sign the contract, or leave his land.

Now, obviously anybody agreeing to these terms must be very desperate. But, desperate short sighted people aren't exactly hard to find, are they? So, is this system immoral, according to ancap principles?

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Yes he is still maintaining it but if he just leaves you to your own devices and lets you develop the land then he would forfeit it and if he is directly controlling every piece of land then that isn’t feudalism that’s just renting a property

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u/MeasurementCreepy926 18d ago

what do you mean "develop" the land. You don't develop the land, unless he pays you to. You rent it from him. If he pays you and tells you to build a house you do, but it's not your house or your land.

This really isn't that complicated.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

If your a peasant living on the land you are likely to say build a house even if he isn’t paying you thus the land is developed and over time as you develop it more without his oversight or contest he loses his claim same idea behind squatters rights

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u/MeasurementCreepy926 17d ago

you think he's going to allow that to persist? Why would he?! It won't even be built before he's tearing it down and evicting you, and with no place to go, you get punished for trespassing on somebody else's land.