Soldiers of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan were rewarded with spoils of war. Today there is no similar incentive for the working class to pitch in. Wealth and favor do not trickle down. Naturally we should expect movements like laying down to emerge.
Why did you have to go that far back in history?
The morons that followed Stalin, Mao, Chavez also got their spoils of war with the state robbing the previous owners and giving it to their army of useful idiots.
And there was nothing left to pillage, the whole farce went down.
in the modern era, everyone has the right to demand freedom and not like in the past when forced labor was rampant
Yeah, and also I have the right to pay you a penny if you want to work only a minute a month. But this social begging movement has no chance in China, fortunately enough there are still a lot of poeple and countries which will not fall for this new trend, Europe and the US have nearly destroyed their economy and manufacturing segment with stupid ideas like this, rather than making cities more affordable with their social and environmental policies have managed to turn them completely the opposite.
China has taken it too for long time ago. There is no democratic elections there and the president becomes a president for life. The moment you take the option away from people even if you make your nation a great place, then you are a dictator and that is taking it too far.
Let's compare the number of years in which China was ruled by a democratically elected government or president and the one ruled by a dictator or emperor...
With that ratio, you'd think they would be having it pretty bad but in reality, a lot of democracies are doing right now far worse than China.