oh, i agree that it was excessive and unrepresented taxation. i'm saying that excessive and unrepresented taxation under an oppressive, backwards regime isn't actually enough to start a revolution. first, you need people with money to start caring, and that's what happened: people with money cared. most people below a certain level of income simply don't give a shit about ideology because they're spending all their time trying to get by. ideology is a privilege of wealth. there were so many compromises made in favor of less populous areas because farming was life and death, and a lot of cash crops were also harvested by low-population areas. they had a disproportionate presence as a result because of their economic necessity, not because of some sense of true fairness. > "i want my slaves to count as 3/5 a citizen because i really care about preventing them from being crushed by city interests," said no one ever it was pragmatic, and it makes sense because isolating your production regions to the point where they have no say is a terrible idea. point to emphasize: it has almost nothing to do with representing citizens or states and everything to do with making sure their economy didn't fold in half immediately.   > 1% of people most people 'in the military' push paper. it really isn't the measure of valor people think it is. joining the army may have actually made me more racist, not less.
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