I spent 68 years as a woman's deepest secret. When the light hit it I found a loving family.
Pretty crazy, isn't it?
except it seems to me that a taboo REALLY favors the person that breaks it.
Yep - and those who have a reason to enforce it.
It's another one of those dirty little secrets that keeps the plebes under control. And we both know the plebes must be kept under control.
People think money is to buy stuff - the majority of it in the world is used to control the people who think it is to buy stuff.