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taryneast comments on Stupid Questions February 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: taryneast 11 February 2015 08:05:32AM *  2 points [-]

"a large subculture of nonworking religious scholars, supported by state welfare"

sounds suspiciously like an abbey to me... just "the state" instead of "the king/pope"

(note: lots of the other bits don't sound quite the same... but still, there are some similarities)

Comment author: alienist 12 February 2015 09:12:49AM 8 points [-]

Well, a lot of abbeys were self-supporting.