Originally posted 2023-06-13 15:04:10.
We have, in the West, entered into an age of new feudalism. To understand this we need to look back to the original one.
Once we get past the chivalry, knights in shining armour, pages who polished their swords, swooning ladies, castles and dragons, feudalism, essentially, was about the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny elite.
Medieval Europe was largely an agrarian economy, although there were significant resources in fishing and still, hunting — both of which quickly came under the control of the landed elite, the feudal lords.
