@EvilSandmich I don't even think it's good for peasants, I think it was good for french bureaucrats who had to do mind numbing amounts of trivial calculations in order to make their ridiculous bloody system work.

It reminds me of the soviets and their desire to have everything under central management "because it is more efficient" and meanwhile stuff is rotting in warehouses.

It's not about being more efficient, it's about control.