FoolishOwl@foolishowl@social.coop
Maybe a dumb question: so Robin Hood and friends were robbing tax collectors to give money back to the poor, but how did that work?
As I understand it, in pre-modern economies, particularly in medieval Europe, currency wasn't used much. And in general the idea with currency was that taxes had to be paid with coins to force peasants to sell food to armies who paid with coins.
So that would suggest that robbing tax collectors was more about disrupting power relations than easing poverty, per se.
nicopap@nicopap@tooting.ch
@foolishowl@social.coop In Theodoros, a novel by CΔrtΔrescu, the chef of police is also the robin hood figure. But actually the robin hood figure doesn't really exist, he just did it a couple and keeps making noise about it.
It's fiction, but it's so fun. The whole thing is crazy.