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Feudalism does not have a middle class (self.philosophy)

submitted 1 week ago by j4k3 to c/[email protected]

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That should be the biggest argument against the rise of tech bro neo feudalism. Feudalism only has a hierarchy of lesser and greater lords that hold a right to ownership of any kind and have a licence to exploit the peasantry, and everyone else is a serf of no relevance or rights of autonomy or ownership.

The only way feudalism can possibly play out is empoverishment of the masses in the long term.

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[–] bouh 4 points 1 week ago

There's as much of a middle class than there is with our current societies. Revolution into capitalism happened because the bourgeoisie saw itself too rich to be of the lower class. They wanted the privileges. They got them.

But the thing is that liberalism is neo-feudalism. The state protect the weak. Without the state, the powerful can do whatever they want. The tech bros think they are among the powerful, that's why they want more neo-feudalism. Exactly like the bourgeois wanted access to privileges.