FWIW, your take on whether feudalism was a good arrangement for serfs goes counter to basically every historian I've ever come across. The second sentence of th

FWIW, your take on whether feudalism was a good arrangement for serfs goes counter to basically every historian I've ever come across. The second sentence of the Wikipedia page on Serfdom describes it as "a condition of debt bondage or indentured servitude". Then it goes on to describe that serfs "could be bought, sold, or traded", but mostly only along with the land they were tied to. Further on, it describes that a free person become a serf "usually through force or necessity".