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> farm their own land Peasants didn't have "their own land". All land belonged to the aristocracy, and you would farm the their land.
by surgical_fire 2y ago
> farm their own land
Peasants didn't have "their own land". All land belonged to the aristocracy, and you would farm the their land.
- im3w1l 2y agoBut the aristocracy didn't micromanage that, is my point. Unless you were a slave I guess?
- datavirtue 2y agoLook no further than the native land of JD Vance and you can find sharecroppers. However, these days no self-respecting man would sharecrop. "I'll just sit at the house."
- dambi0 2y agoEven the official end of feudalism, at least in the UK, was at least a century before the Industrial Revolution.