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Businesses are associations. They just unfortunately come with a lot of feudal assumptions these days.
by dullcrisp 1y ago
Businesses are associations. They just unfortunately come with a lot of feudal assumptions these days.
- Nasrudith 1y agoPlease, I am begging you. Research actual feudalism.
- bell-cot 1y agoYeah. And universities are (generally) far more feudal than 99% of modern western businesses ever want to be. Which is not to say that's a good idea. Nor that it's working out, longer-term, for the universities.
- sanderjd 1y agoA better comment would assume that this person has indeed researched feudalism and would criticize the analogy based on that assumption.
- anovikov 1y agoFeudalism wasn't at all about people. It was about land. That's the principal difference with slaveholding: in a slaveholding society, principal asset is people, and the land is usually cheap, just worthless unless you own slaves who can cultivate it - it is the people who are the limited resource. In a feudal society, it is the land - if you have land, people will come - there was no point to instill gulag-like conditions on them - land was limited, people were not - so there was nowhere for them to run.
- dullcrisp 1y agoI was referring to the rigidly hierarchical management structure at most companies and how there’s a worker/manager/executive class structure that functions roughly based on fealty. It was a rough metaphor maybe but I wasn’t talking about slavery.
- bluecheese452 1y agoIn feudalism peasants were not free to leave their lord or his land.