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105 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Dec \ on: What is Technofeudalism? — The Beautiful Truth econ
The analogy is importantly lacking since no one is obligated to use a particular platform or even any platform at all.
I haven't really wrapped my head around this concept yet, but it seems like it doesn't have much to do with whether people actually use it or not. I mean, pretty much everyone uses at least one Big Tech service.
It looks like the idea is comparing the power (political, economic, social) of old feudal lords (the ones who owned huge chunks of land) to Big Tech, who kinda inherited that power. It's a dope concept, but I probably need to read up on it more.
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I think the word feudalism needs to be connected specifically to the system of land rights that it enforced, otherwise the word loses most of its meaning.
Because if "feudalism" simply refers to power and loyalty relationships, then it simply describes dynamics that exist under any organized system with humans in it, and thus it can be used to describe anything. "Technofeudalism" "Corpofeudalism" "Medicalfeudalism", etc... it would all apply.
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Even just being allowed to switch between platforms is a huge deviation from what "serfdom" implies. Serfs did not have the right to leave the land they were born onto.
To me, any system that has freedom of migration just can't meaningfully be equated to serfdom. It would be like calling something "slavery" that didn't involve forced labor.
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