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Serfs are legally a part of the land, they are not free to move and they own labor to their liege lord.

• scotty79 3y ago
  Right, but when serfdom was abolished and people were free to move, some of them were forced to move looking for work and poorer because of that. So were they more free? Just because they were not attached to their land? Or were they less free because they had less and nobody anylonger cared if they live or die? We are also attached to land. Just a bigger piece of land. I can't freely move to work anywhere on the planet.
  • ljosifov 3y ago
    Maybe fair to say that the most we can say is that one form of unfreadom was replaced by another form of unfreadom. Along the lines of - is "freedom to starve" a freedom, how much freedom, and is a +ve or a -ve freedom? I think this is a ongoing and long discussion with not a final straightforward answer. In philosophy that is. It maybe that the technology provides an answer by creating new reality at some point.