The Shydell Thesis - The Fucking Step Nomads

Step-nomads are able to mobilize military effectiveness at a level that a settled society simply cannot do because of the necessity of a division of labor. The feudal arrangements had been smashed thousands of years ago, but what that meant is over time, there's a dispossession at the bottom. You get people shaken out of ownership. And specifically, the people who moved from northern China to southern China, the Haka. They move from northern China, desolate, prone to attack by step nomads to the more rich lands of the south where they have no stake and can't acquire any property. So you've got this restive population. You've got this class conflict in the countryside caused by