Interesting take but it's missing the other part of feudalism: the Catholic Church. Today we don't have one monolithic church but we do have a very large numbe

Interesting take but it's missing the other part of feudalism: the Catholic Church. Today we don't have one monolithic church but we do have a very large number of priests who can excommunicate you over nothing at all. The larger outside of the centres of powers you get the juicer target for these people you get. This has gotten so bad the Linus of Linux fame has to have a literal guard around him at all times as to not be accused of rape: https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/06/linus_torvalds_targeted_by_honeytraps_says_eric_raymond/ https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/06/linus_torvalds_target...