Oz Zeren
Jul 23, 2021

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Even Versailles had major point and purpose: Louis' objective was to create a luxury center to collect all the nobility instead of letting them stay in their own rural estates, keeping them busy and therefore preventing them from plotting against himself and the kingdom.

And he succeeded. Versailles became de facto aristocratic center, many nobility lived in Versailles, being busy with pleasantries and hedonism instead of plotting to increase their power, allowing Louis to create the more efficient centralized state in which nobility did not meddle in - which later became a model for modern statecraft.

Bezos et al's space hobby does not compare to that.

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Oz Zeren
Oz Zeren

Written by Oz Zeren

Writing for a better future. I work in Tech. I like Philosophy, History, Computers, Gaming, the Internet. I’m excited about the Creator Economy, Web 3.0, DAOs.

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