Paul Graham @paulg

Before it became possible to get rich by creating wealth, the way to do it was to be on the winning side in a military or political dispute. [引用 @lefineder]: After William conquered England in 1066, he incorporated 21% of the land in England as his royal estate. Then came the rewards for his close followers: 57 people were given control of half the land in England. Based on the origin of names in the Domesday Book, we can see that almost all major landholders were Norman; only a few hundred English landholders (mostly with smaller lands) are named,…