Why is /pol/ so opposed to feudalism?
>>517714435This sounds good until you get stuck with an asshole as the monarchOr even worse, you line through a succession fiasco
>>517714435corporate feudalism is what we haveit is infinitely worse because normies don't have a clue it's happened
>>517714435It’s too jeet like
>>517714435Because their entire social structure glorifies the concept of "divine leadership" thanks to Christian rewriting of history.
>>517714435Yeah great system unless you are one of the peasents, wait... That's just like today! :D
The most important feature of a strong government is its ability to deal with threats to society, whether those be criminals or foreign societies. A weak government is great for 19th century frontier America, but not for, for example, 19th century France.
>>517715636Depends where, medieval English peasants had a total tax burden of like <3% (not really taxes but like leasing farm land from the church) and IIRC something like minimum 3 months worth of various feast days and holidays, church mandated. Aside from tech they were literally better off than us modern day peasants.
>>517716189This, they actually lived well considering the era
