Re:Why a German billionaire says that pledges like Mark Zuck...
by sageikosa on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:38PM
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Well, depending on whether you consider the fief or the fealty pledge as the defining characteristic of feudalism, it's not a bad analogy. I get more annoyed when people conflate manorialism with feudalism. One is how the people survive, the other is how the lords of the manor (or city) are beholden to a higher power.
"Feudalism is bad, so anything that can be vaguely compared to it must also be bad."