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In feudal times, if you did not agree with the legislation and tax rates of your city, you only had to change city, and in any case, you could live away from civilization without paying tribute to anyone.

Nowadays, if you do not agree with the legislation and tax rates of your country, you have to move to another country.

In the very near future, if you do not agree with the legislation and tax rates standardized globally by the world government, you will have to move to another planet.

From the point of view of freedom, feudalism was the peak of freedom in a socially complex world, since then we have been going downwards.

The period after feudalism, given by absolutist monarchies and statism, has been responsible for criminalizing that era.

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nikotsla 1y ago

Maybe related, I love the idea of patronage (Mecenazgo) to get out the state from "culture/artist" and all the shit they said to "support" with our tax.

wertyyryyr 1y ago

Bitcoin will bring feudalism back again

Diacone Frost 1y ago

In feudal times, most of the people were bound to the feudal's property and land. To move, you had to get an approval of both your's and target location feudal. Usually, paying tributes to both of them - to let you go and let you in.

Truth is that in much less densly populated europe, you could find a place to live away from civilization. The price was that you could not leverage full benefits of labour division and everything yourself.

Logen Kain 1y ago

There were many culteral differences amoung the various forms of feudalism.

I assume you're honing in on serfdom, but even that has it's differences.

Diacone Frost 1y ago

I'm most familiar with central europe. Don't know much about eastern forms.

I just don't like the romantic lenses people use when talking about medieval.

Even in the end guilds and feudals had all the power. Economic and political

The life for common was pretty much hell. The only upside was that they probably paid much less in taxes then we pay now. In central europe it was around 20%.

Logen Kain 1y ago

Lot less work than we have now, but yea. Tottally agree.

jared 1y ago

Really?!? Farmers could just take up farming unfarmed land on the estate of another lord?

Doesn’t pass the basic sniff test.