> Otherwise the tenants just start taking land. ...and do what with it, exactly? Farm it, like they're already doing? The conflicts would not be about the lan

> Otherwise the tenants just start taking land. ...and do what with it, exactly? Farm it, like they're already doing? The conflicts would not be about the land, they would be about rents/dues/duties/taxes. And there would only be conflicts when the tenants feel like those are unfair and they're not getting anything back in return. Which is not neccessarily the case. The article goes into quite some detail how the patronage system provides benefits to the clients, and how actual historical peasant revolts were often not about overthrowing the social order, but merely restoring it to a previous state.