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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by thanksgiving on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:46AM (#38951498)
Legality just isn’t a concern when it comes to big companies. I am convinced that if someone looks at history from far away in the future, they will compress feudalism and industrial capitalism together.

These companies have a big influence on what is legal or what is a priority for governments.

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by faeriechangling on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:55AM (#38951593)
Serfs being bound to the land, and power being directly held by those who provided military service are pretty stark differences between Feudalism and Capitalism. Not even Marx equated the two systems.
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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by yunwal on Thursday January 11, 2024 @08:42AM (#38952053)
> Serfs being bound to the land

This is literally RTO /s

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by fulladder on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:02AM (#38953070)
Yeah, but parent is saying if you zoom out. We don't know what will come next; it could be dramatically different. Nobody saw industrialization and its attendant social order coming.
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