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It doesn't make sense for land to be fully subjected to a free market because the endgame is fairly obviously lords and serfs.

As the factories absorbed both the serfs and the artisans, the serfs saw it as an upgrade, while the artisans resented the new way of life.

Peasantry wasn't slavery, but they were serfs, and in the end serfdom didn't end up being very different to slavery.

If you really want to go back to the age of peasants and serfs, why don't you lead by example?

The historical system is a system of rich and poor, of serfs and lords, full of exploitation at every level.

More precisely, it would be a war waged beneath the underclass (in Russia, the serfs and such) and the ruling class.

This is going to lead to a permanent underclass where people are worse off than even serfs of the medieval period.

During feudal England, serfs were also different from villeins or smallholders, though all were peasants.

It works fantastically for those who are turned into kings, but it also guarantees that 99%+ of the population will remain serfs.

We can't go on with this nonsense class based serfs and lords stuff.

Certainly even serfs had knowledge about the outer world through contacts like this.

But some form of basic guaranteed income would go a long way to make sure we're not turned into serfs.

Sorry!] 3) "all of us would have been serfs...

“To put it crudely, they are hiring their own serfs,” says Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economist who runs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

The upper classes looked down on them as excessively prone to drunkenness and laziness, as clannish and untrustworthy, and especially as lacking honor and a sense of national spirit."[2] "The difference from serfs elsewhere was that the farmer did not directly own the life and property of the homesteader (Husmann), but in most cases, he practically did.