That should be the biggest argument against the rise of tech bro neo feudalism. Feudalism only has a hierarchy of lesser and greater lords that hold a right to ownership of any kind and have a licence to exploit the peasantry, and everyone else is a serf of no relevance or rights of autonomy or ownership.

The only way feudalism can possibly play out is empoverishment of the masses in the long term.

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    Feudalism only has a hierarchy of lesser and greater lords […] to exploit the peasantry

    There are “lesser” and “greater” lords that exploit the “peasants”. There’s the “proletariat” and the “burgeoisie”, with “petit burgeoisie” in-between. There’s the “workers” and the management - “low-” and “high-”. And of course, there’s the classes: “high”, “low” and of course, “middle”.

    The way I see it, pretty much whatever system one envisions, there’s the “down-lows”, the “high-ups” and the “in-betweens”, although they may not be called that explicitly. Usually it’s the high class that can be split into two, feudal lords and management alike.