3 ms·
> "Large landholders rely on the desperation of the little people to make it possible for them to secure enough borrowed/bought/forced labor to make those large
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> "Large landholders rely on the desperation of the little people to make it possible for them to secure enough borrowed/bought/forced labor to make those larger holdings produce."
This is like half the startups since 2000's, like Amazon warehouse workers and Deliveroo.
Just instead of physical land, their holding are IP, but equally violently protected by the state.
Feudalism lasted for thousands of years, it should be surprising to see bits of it re-emerge