fief

" The power to ban can also be used to turn a group into a personal fief.

But if you are an "accumulator of wealth", you can basically act as a modern fief.

The feudal system is named after a form of property ownership - the feodum or fief.

If the function is the fief, then you provide the use of it only to those other functions that will swear fealty to you.

No, the State has them as property, the manufacturer only as fief, as possession.

Seems that he prefers to have his own isolated fief where others can handle the sales side while he can focus purely on R&D where he excels.

This is still true of the corporatist variety - unlike feudal fiefs, corporations can be bought and sold, and that makes all the difference.

The only way for a feudal to aggregate more power is to go to war with other feudals for more lands, because a fief is land tenure, not property.

They weren't preparing for all apocalypses, just the ones that would let them use military strength to become unchallenged fief lords.

We shouldn't rely on the good will of our fief lords to donate their money, in fact just look at Mr 150 billion who openly says "I can't think of anything that deserves a donation".The corollary is obvious.

It's pretty common in corporate world that managers & mini-executives & executives push for huge home run hits, within their fief, then leverage that smashing success to push for even bigger agendas.

The unaccountable billionaire rulers of the oceanic fief who went to incredible expense for the sole purpose of escaping democratic accountability.