Feudalistic in a sentence as an adjective

Sadly, this feudalistic approach is prevalent in our industry which hurts all of us.

While agree about VC being feudalistic and oligarchic, that doesn't mean tech workers don't have choice in where the work to some degree.

Academia is a horrible feudalistic system that doesn't pay well enough to keep the bright minds it attracts.

It's far more likely that disease, war, and/or natural disaster will send us back to a feudalistic existence before we achieve any of that.

It is simplistic to dismiss academia as a feudalistic system.

Often, they have no other choice because an investor will either back them or end them, the latter being a power they have in this backward, feudalistic reputation economy.

And if their attempts to suppress explicit evidence clearly detailing their feudalistic aspirations wasn't proof enough, they come back with a blatantly laughable settlement offer to make it official.

A state without a monopoly on laws and law enforcement means there is no one to enforce contracts, prevent corporate monopolies, define conflict of interest, right the injustices of the poor, etc. That's basically anarchism which leads to feudalistic society with the wealthy at the top. Feudalism has been tried for centuries and it just doesn't work as well as a state with a monopoly on laws and law enforcement.

I would vastly prefer opt-in distributed nation-tribes, such as Neal Stephenson's "phyles".But at the same time, there is a strong possibility that if governments were to evaporate tomorrow, we would revert first to "nature red in tooth and claw", eventually giving way to networks of feudalistic allegiances, in both cases, backed by extreme violence.

Feudalistic definitions

adjective

of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism

See also: feudal