• PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m waiting for a historian to come along and be like “uuhm ACKTUALLY…”

    One one hand, feudalism could be abused just as easily, if not more easily than deregulated capitalism can be. On the other hand, governments and rich people didn’t have the technology we have today which probably made it harder to enforce really dumbass shit.

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      1 year ago

      My understanding is that they medieval peasants were given a lot of free time because it was recognized that they’d revolt otherwise. Maybe we need to reinstate that fear.

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        Peasants engaged primarily in agricultural labor, and there are significant parts of the year where there is no productive agricultural work to be done. While other trades and crafts existed (cobblers, tanners, blacksmiths, tailors, physicians, carpenters, masons, etc) they were an insignificant portion of the total economic landscape.

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        1 year ago

        Not having armies powerful enough with high-tech enough technology to defeat even god himself probably had a lot to do with it as well. Today it doesn’t matter if the poor people start revolting, they can just mow them down with drone strikes and machine guns if it gets too out of hand.