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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by surgical_fire on Monday July 22, 2024 @12:34PM (#41036371)
> farm their own land

Peasants didn't have "their own land". All land belonged to the aristocracy, and you would farm the their land.

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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by dambi0 on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:44PM (#41037196)
Even the official end of feudalism, at least in the UK, was at least a century before the Industrial Revolution.
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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by datavirtue on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:43PM (#41037184)
Look no further than the native land of JD Vance and you can find sharecroppers. However, these days no self-respecting man would sharecrop. "I'll just sit at the house."
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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by im3w1l on Monday July 22, 2024 @04:48PM (#41039652)
But the aristocracy didn't micromanage that, is my point. Unless you were a slave I guess?
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