To be fair, the ancient world was wildly unsafe and governments did provide a modicum of safety. Not just against aggressions, but also in terms of reliable access to food.
“Reliable access to food” as in “rowing bands of bandits won’t burn your crops, in exchange, you have to pay tax to the king”
But yes it was a slow getting-use-to, at first it was at eye level “we grow food, you fight”. That slow progression can be clearly seen by the various stuff that nobility couldn’t do in the middle ages. You could not, for example, remove peasants from their land, it wasn’t so much illegal as not thinkable – until you could. Capitalism, especially in today’s world, has no “noblesse oblige” any more that’s why it’s so much harsher in pretty much all aspects. Sure, liberal democracy claws some of that back but that’s not capitalism.
To be fair, the ancient world was wildly unsafe and governments did provide a modicum of safety. Not just against aggressions, but also in terms of reliable access to food.
“Reliable access to food” as in “rowing bands of bandits won’t burn your crops, in exchange, you have to pay tax to the king”
But yes it was a slow getting-use-to, at first it was at eye level “we grow food, you fight”. That slow progression can be clearly seen by the various stuff that nobility couldn’t do in the middle ages. You could not, for example, remove peasants from their land, it wasn’t so much illegal as not thinkable – until you could. Capitalism, especially in today’s world, has no “noblesse oblige” any more that’s why it’s so much harsher in pretty much all aspects. Sure, liberal democracy claws some of that back but that’s not capitalism.