It’s called metaphor and analogy. See not all humans operate on the language used in economics.
They have parallel meaning. The king wanted to shore up supply of subjects, subjects their supply of goods.
But you’re forgetting the threat of death and suffering.
The king didn’t offer things for free. It offered things in return for fealty, maybe.
There was no rigid “if you work you eat” rule. It WAS NOT simply “supply the king and he’ll feed you.” Decisions on who was fed could often come down to how the king felt that week.
There was no rigid framework that ensured “do work for king, get what you need.”
Kings didn’t give a fuck about fair trade. Neither do we now.
Perhaps because you’ve generalized away, to the point of absurdity, the dramatic effects of a number of well debated set of systems that maintain social norms.
Imo this is why looser IP laws are important. Humanity needs to be able to rethink and find new application of its epistemological ideas to find new ideas of interest.
Too often we’re held to thinking about IP only the way the author intended. It’s almost pushing into thought policing.
Apple Geniuses aren’t trained in electronics & troubleshooting. They get some recipes and when none of those have an answer they fallback to “Lie to the user.”
Source: colleague who was a manager of a Genius team at a big city Apple store.
They are meant to help Apple save face. Put that old school customer service in person touch on things.
It’s not explicitly stated like that in training. They just don’t know, and concoct an answer that the avg customer won’t know is bullshit. It’s how it shakes out given the recipes they’re not allowed to deviate from and the hiring of Apple users, not trained electronics technicians.
They have parallel meaning. The king wanted to shore up supply of subjects, subjects their supply of goods.
But you’re forgetting the threat of death and suffering.
The king didn’t offer things for free. It offered things in return for fealty, maybe.
There was no rigid “if you work you eat” rule. It WAS NOT simply “supply the king and he’ll feed you.” Decisions on who was fed could often come down to how the king felt that week.
There was no rigid framework that ensured “do work for king, get what you need.”
Kings didn’t give a fuck about fair trade. Neither do we now.