Why Land Makes You a Target: From Feudal Plunder to Modern Tax Farms In the agricultural era, ownership of land was both the source of wealth and the origin of vulnerability. To hold land was to plant roots—roots that could be trampled, taxed, or torched. Lords and monarchs alike understood that the immobility of the peasant and the fixed nature of land made for an ideal target. You could not hide a field. You could not flee with a barn. Violence became profitable because people were stationary. The returns to organized coercion were high, not because it was efficient—but because it was easy. The serf tied to the soil could be milked for decades, generation after generation. Feudalism, at its core, was a system of economic extraction through controlled immobility. Fast forward to today, and little has changed—except the names. Modern landowners, business owners, and citizens still wear digital shackles in the form of property titles, tax records, and state surveillance. Governments plunder wealth not with swords, but with legal codes and tax enforcement. The state doesn’t need to storm your castle; it need only assess your “real estate value” and send you a bill. Your land makes you legible, taxable, and punishable. True sovereignty cannot exist where your assets are tied to terrain. To own land is to be mapped. But this too shall pass. In the Information Age, power no longer flows from land—it flows from code. Sovereign Individuals will not be citizens in the traditional sense. They will be digital nomads, leveraging encryption, distributed networks, and global jurisdictions to elude the coercive grasp of any single state. Their assets will be in cryptographic vaults, not vaults of stone. Their wealth will move at the speed of light, not at the pace of a plow. The age of geography is dying. The age of the algorithm is dawning. And with it, the returns to violence will fall—because the truly Sovereign Individual cannot be caught. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/817e6af71dc99ad0c117a20a11a32811ee18918d121fc61137c367a46199fff6.jpg