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Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Many very rich people own hardly any land. Many very powerful people own hardly any land. Many comparatively poor people may own many acres of land. You could move the goal post and say it’s ownership of corporations but then at that point it’s clearly not feudalism.
Yu do not work in exchange for your boss for protection unless you consider the democratically elected government a feudal lord, in which case again, number 1 doesn’t apply and therefore the system isn’t feudalism. Furthermore you have the option to get another job, move out, save and start a business etc.
You can see how that’s not the case anymore were even marriage is a legal contract.

So yeah, no we do not live under feudalism and you need to maybe touch grass. Feudalism was much worse than what we have now, like it’s not even close.

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DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You don’t seem to understand what I’m getting at: we are just as ruled by an elite today as we were five hundred years ago. Regardless of the political system, nothing has changed except the way it happens.

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- TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That’s not Feudalism.
  Seems like you just learned about Feudalism and you’re applying it to something it isn’t.
  
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  - DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    An example of a feudal context: real estate companies that made Drump and his father big.
    
    Blackstone Group, Gray Star Real Estate, Vonovia SE, LEG Immobilien AG, China Vanke, and so on.
    
    These are all multi-billion dollar companies that are still controlled by people. They are not state-owned companies or anything that would be useful to society. This is about profits.
    
    You can, of course, continue to insist that my blanket statement is not entirely correct, but I stand by it. Not much has changed since feudalism: there are still masters and servants — and I think it will always be that way.
    
    So, I’m not saying that it’s something new — quite the contrary — I’m saying that hardly anything has changed in hundreds of years.
    
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    Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Hierarchy will always exist yes, you did not discover something new. I don’t know if I would describe it in the context of masters and slaves though, for sure there is a lot of inequality but overall the difference in quality of life between the elites and the common person is much less than under feudalism. And you have a lot more agency over the outcome of your life.
    
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- Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Like I said, hierarchy. Hierarchy and feudalism are not the same thing.
  
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- Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  Regardless of the political system
  
  We understand what you’re trying to say. You’re just not saying it the way you think, though. Words matter. Feudalism is a specific political system. It’s effectively nonsense to say “regardless of political system, everything is <political system>”
  
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