Markets require information and exchange. Those who will trade are cheaper to pr

Markets require information and exchange.

Those who will trade are cheaper to profit from than those you must manage. animal -> slave -> serf -> freemen -> citizen -> sovereign.

We want a lot of sovereigns of course, but citizens are cheaper than freemen, are cheaper than serfs, are cheaper than slaves, are cheaper than animals.

Under natural law dissent, rather than majoritarian assent, they’re powerless unless we want something from them. So it’s simply cheaper.