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That's not even the main risk reduced. Feudalism was invented to reduce risk of dying of starvation. Peasants were always 1 bad harvest away from starvation, th
by ajuc 3y ago
That's not even the main risk reduced. Feudalism was invented to reduce risk of dying of starvation. Peasants were always 1 bad harvest away from starvation, they couldn't store wealth for more than a few years (as grain which goes bad). And their labor was either almost worthless (most of the year) or in shortage (during the harvest and a few other occasions).
So they did "cloud farming" :) The people who had access to wider markets and had enough wealth to be able to survive one bad season - provided the infrastructure and shouldered most of the risks. In exchange for the only thing available to peasants - their labor.
As any power hierarchy it quickly turned to shit, but the idea was sound.
- nebula8804 3y agoHmm fascinating! So the real "best of both worlds" here is to try and stall the march of entropy where the services we rely on "tun to shit" as you say. One way i've been thinking of this is crowd sourced alternatives to major apps but the problem with this is the backends. Lets say you make a anti-enshittified youtube client. Well youtube is just gonna change their backend to break the app. Well now you gotta have crowdsourced efforts to constantly reverse engineer their backend.