Like I said, hierarchy. Hierarchy and feudalism are not the same thing.
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DandomRude@lemmy.world 1 week agoYou 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.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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>”
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.
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.
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.