News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The secret afterlives of medieval widows by ableal on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:25AM (#27710116)
Simplest thing was to let someone work the land in exchange for a cut of the crops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenant_farmer

Sharecropping has also been pointed out as the model for things happening on the web: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl... (redux: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/14/ShareCrop... )

There are no comments on this comment yet.