A thought about Sleeping Beauty
Aug. 18th, 2005 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zenmondoSomething just occurred to me watching the begining of Sleeping Beauty. Because of the curse on the young princess, every spinning wheel in the kingdom is destroyed. Every single one.
What did this do the the Economy? I mean there would be an entire profession of spinners and weavers put out of work -- the tools of thier trade made illegal. Were there protests in the streets from the guilds? Were there arressts of those unpatriotic souls who continued to make thread? And what of everyone's clothes? Over the sixteen years of the spinning wheel ban, there would be no way to repair or make new clothes -- unless imported from the next kingdom over. And why an immediate ban? They knew the DATE of the curse -- the princess' sixteenth birthday. There could have been 15 years of productivity for spinners and weavers with a year to destroy the spinning wheels, but they thought it better to make an entire class destitute than for a princess to prick her finger. Once again the Aristocracy just sticking it to the proletariat that supports them.
What did this do the the Economy? I mean there would be an entire profession of spinners and weavers put out of work -- the tools of thier trade made illegal. Were there protests in the streets from the guilds? Were there arressts of those unpatriotic souls who continued to make thread? And what of everyone's clothes? Over the sixteen years of the spinning wheel ban, there would be no way to repair or make new clothes -- unless imported from the next kingdom over. And why an immediate ban? They knew the DATE of the curse -- the princess' sixteenth birthday. There could have been 15 years of productivity for spinners and weavers with a year to destroy the spinning wheels, but they thought it better to make an entire class destitute than for a princess to prick her finger. Once again the Aristocracy just sticking it to the proletariat that supports them.
