Timocracy
Timocracy is a government form of the rule of individuals that possess property. Extreme forms of Timocracy come in the form of power purely from wealth, similar to Plutocracy.
History
The term "timocracy" is found in Plato and Aristotle. It is also mentioned in the writings of Xenophon.
According to Plato, who outlined the ideas of Socrates, timocracy — the power of ambitious people, is a negative form of government, along with oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. According to Plato, timocracy tends to turn into an oligarchy as the ruling class accumulates wealth. Plato argues that democracy arises after aristocracy, when a new generation is born. Plato also said that their interests are above the state
According to Aristotle, timocracy is a positive form of government that tends to transition into a negative form — democracy, because these types of government have a common facet: timocracy also wants to be the power of a large number of people, and with it all belonging to the same category are equal.
An example of timocracy is considered to be the state system in Athens, established in the VI century BC as a result of the reforms of Solon, and in Rome after the reforms attributed to Servius Tullius.
Variants
Timodemocracy
Timodemocracy is an ideology that holds that a Minimum Property Requirement to vote would remove the poorest and the laziest from the electoral system, thus removing some Abuses of state power i.e. excessively increasing taxes and public services.
The main difference between Timodemocracy and standard Timocracy is that the former supports social mobility and doesn't want to create an Aristocratic class completely separate from the others.
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Relations
Landowners
- Plutocracy - Most rich people own land.
- Kraterocracy - Slaveowners own land mostly.
- Oligarchy - Same as above.
- Feudalism - You have owned lots of lands and had power too.
- Reactionary Liberalism - They like me for some strange reason.
- Classical Conservatism - I can always count on him.
- Hamiltonianism - My loyal
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Inhabitants
- Propertarianism - Why are you so ashamed of me, my child?
- Athenian Democracy - You made the right choice to allow only land owners to participate in decision-making, but I think other merits are not necessary.
- Anarcho-Capitalism - I like this "territorial jurisdictions" part of you, and don't like charter cities, your son made adjustments tho.
- Optimateism - We love rich people but property requirements must prevail.
Freeloaders
- Georgists - Free land? More like my land.
- Marxism - Surplus value? More like my value
- Social Georgism - Awful combination of the above.
- Socialism - Upstart peasant.
- Classical Liberalism - Landlords do NOT have their origin in robbery!
- Maoism - Stop killing landlords, asshole!
- Jacksonian Democracy - Idiotic and moronic demagogue that opposed property requirements for political elections! Yeah, how did that go for you?! Remember the open-house party at the White House? You let a bunch of dirty poor people trash the place! Pathetic...
- Agorism - OI! IT'S MY LAND. YOU CAN'T SELL IT WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!
- Illegalism - You will not squat, rob or vandalize my property, I have mines and turrets!