Often, the most despotic legal institutions have what are among the largest and most centralized legal structures for their time. One does not carry out a Soviet-style purge on little more sheer whim. It takes quite a bit of organization to achieve such carnage and displacement that soon follow.
> There ultimate in removed regulation is an apparatchik unhelpfully advising: "Just don't screw up"
What you posit as merely "unhelpful advise" is in practice an unpronounced threat: "Do it the way we expect or else". It isn't a removed regulation but an obscured one where the final interpretation rests with the apparatchik.
>The ultimate in simple taxes is serfdom
I never got the memo when black became white. The simplest tax paid is zero taxes. Serfdom renders individuals as property fixed to the land/estate they pay tithes/taxes to. They couldn't by an be further from each other.
Serfdom sounds pretty reasonable. No taxes means no redistribution of wealth, leading to a few growing richer and richer, because of accumulated advantages. While the majority go porer and porer, eventuellt might have to work all the time to be able to buy food and pay the rent, scared of protesting against an abusive employer.
That's a kind of serfdom. Not literally the same thing but ...
Look up "the working poor", is a little bit already a reality to some
> There ultimate in removed regulation is an apparatchik unhelpfully advising: "Just don't screw up"
What you posit as merely "unhelpful advise" is in practice an unpronounced threat: "Do it the way we expect or else". It isn't a removed regulation but an obscured one where the final interpretation rests with the apparatchik.
>The ultimate in simple taxes is serfdom
I never got the memo when black became white. The simplest tax paid is zero taxes. Serfdom renders individuals as property fixed to the land/estate they pay tithes/taxes to. They couldn't by an be further from each other.