It's intensely funny to me that the two branches of christianity that most people call "catholic" and "orthodox" both claim to be both catholic and orthodox.
Thing is, the Shire was a hereditary monarchy, they just didn't call their ruler a king - it was Thane. Pippin was in line for and did eventually inherit the title.
There's also Buckland, the small offshoot of the Shire ruled by the Master of Buckland, and of course this title was inherited by Merry.
Clearly the people who are responsible for the most worth in the economy are people who tell scary stories about robots, like Roko here, and not maids, grocery workers or waitresses. You can tell because they're paid less, see.
I don't think anyone likes how the Prime Directive is used - if you agree with the idea of non-interference, it's too often used used as just a cheap tension builder for why they can't help people facing imminent extinction and if you don't, well, it's even worse.
It's intensely funny to me that the two branches of christianity that most people call "catholic" and "orthodox" both claim to be both catholic and orthodox.