'William had struck Northumbria right through the heart. And a wound like that goes on for far more than 17 years.
The thing about destruction on this scale is that, even when communities and societies rebuild, they do so at a disadvantage.
That loss of political and economic power becomes a static momentum. And other communities, communities that didn’t suffer the same losses, continue building upon their wealth and station (all while Yorkshire is just struggling to become habitable again).
This is where atrocities become inequalities and then inequalities become structural disadvantages. The people living in rich areas often have more political influence than those in poor areas, and so they are more likely to get favorable governmental policies. If you have money to spend, you tend to give it to those who have the power to ask for it. If money needs to be cut…well, it tends to be taken from those who can’t do anything about it. it is much easier to apply unpopular governance to politically weak communities than politically strong ones.
And so, while there are many reasons for wealth disparity, the fact is that after William the North became poorer than the South… and it remains so. That damage has been passed down for a thousand years.
William was destroying the present, and the future.' |  |
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