Re: Fiction: "Rich and poor"

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe you mean "domesday book"


[TR Introduction] The first approach to a modern assessment roll or
cataster is the well known Domesday Book. The existing literature on
this remarkable memorial is so extensive, that it has not appeared
advisable to quote largely from it. Our first quotation contains the
instructions issued to the Commissioners who made the record. The second
is a specimen return. There is a wide variety in the returns, though
certain factors recur constantly in each statement. The survey is the
most extensive document, embracing as it does the entire area of England
held by the Conqueror, which we possess in regard to medieval times. It
is important to note how the feudal power as founded by William is no
longer dependent like the Empire of Charles upon the personal estates of
the crown, but brings the entire land under its influence through the
feudal dues, and thus paves the way for the modern state founded upon
the obligations of all its citizens.

Joanna

Kenneth Campbell wrote:

> Joanna wrote:
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> > It's interesting,in this regard, to note that all
> > fictional plots involving the rich and the poor
> > changing places, always have a capitalist trade
> > places with a beggar...not a worker.
>
> Today, yes, often so. Not always so...
>
> One of my fave old movies is the "Devil and Miss Jones"... With a very
> sexy Jean Arthur as a retail clerk with a unionizing boyfriend.
>
> Evil boss goes to work in the shoe department to weed out "unionists"
> and meets her. Very funny ("What's a doomsday book?").
>
> But that was a rare moment in U.S. film history.
>
> Ken.
>
> --
> Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest
> of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work
> for the benefit of us all.
>          -- John Maynard Keynes