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Best Regards, Linda barony --- It doesn't get much more obvious than that, but hey, the origin is gmail so it must be good.

Do you rely on Elon Musk for protection and security, or do you go to the barony of Zuckerberg?

While inventing the printing press certainly put many scribes out of business, few would call it zero-sum or robber-barony.

And most familiar to me as the capital of the Barony of New Canaan in Stephen King's The Dark Tower.

Capable yeomen can become men-at-arms, men-at-arms can be knighted, knights can become commanders and maybe given a barony, on so on.

If zuckerberg is king, then your family business is the holdings of a minor barony.

Ie: You can't honestly compare a modern market economy with a feudal barony.

Big tech workers displaced by corporate ducheys find employment with their local barony.

The related cultural overhang is twofold: the english barony probably welcomed the divergence.

It would seem that he's the heir to a Scottish barony (Menie).

You have Andrew Carnegie to thank for expensive marketing campaigns that retired that term in popular usage and rebranding robber barony under the philanthropist label.

What, you say that once the King creates me as a Baron, I'm not going to automatically be issued a Barony to rule?

I suppose it's easy to bitch about the "king-makers" when your own little barony is disrupted.

When I hear the name "Carnegie", I think of music and libraries, but his contemporaries would think of emotional abuse and robber-barony.

I had another uncle like that, although his variety of landed gentry was more along the lines of "owned several gas stations" rather than owning a barony or dutchy.

The Duke of Hastings' skin exactly matched that of the real Duke of Hastings -- since Hastings was a Barony.

We'll even play co-operative games of Barony, and Borderlands; but those are more that they want to spend time with their Dad.

Reminded me of Grimrock too, but if you also like this I'd recommend a game called Barony.