• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Technically feudalism is a separate system of resource extraction. Someone who owns the land basically just takes a percentage cut of your goods or earnings for being on their space and leaves you to do whatever you want as long as you survive .

    So arguably being something like a content creator on a platform or working for uber is closer to feudalism than capitalism.

    Capitalism is more the complicated system of landholders wanting to profit from selling, holding, leasing and developing land for profit as an investment good forcing people to perpetually earn to afford to live as individual family units.

    It’s a subtle distinction.