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Wow. Involved with the book as well? Feudalism was under pressure, simply because you went from a surplus of labor, really to a dramatic shortage of labor.
So if you want to understand what he was saying, remember "Oliver Twist." The England of his time was certainly capitalist. Feudalism was gone. So was Paris. So it was Frankfurt.
Because I think we have to solve the regulatory barriers, here. Feudal security has risks. The vendors are going to act in their self interest.
And I think this only gets exacerbated as there's more technology. Feudal lords get more powerful. And some of that is just the natural order of bigness in our society right now.
settings a lot did; the Hakka women never bound their feet. So they had this kind of cultural difference that in another setting might be thought of as ethnic. There were feuds sometimes, violence between Hakka and non-Hakka living near each other. In another setting that would be thought of as inter-ethnic violence, so that's just the kind of diversitywithin there. There's also religious diversity, diversity based on region and locale. Local identities become very important in China. Gender, how people are experienced changes
It was special. It had a spirit, or it had a vital force, that distinguished it from inanimate objects. The feud never really was successfully resolved.
- Yeah. Yeah, that... I could not agree more. There are some problems with, this feudal ceremony, you have to kiss your lord's foot to- to, you know, be in a subservient role. And Rollo says, "I'm not gonna do that." So he turns to one of
All these things are good. So feudal security provides this level of security that most everybody is below. So it will raise them up to whatever level the providers are providing.
For others, I'm not so sure. The feudal model is also inherently based on power. And that's what I'm thinking is interesting, right now.
It favors two or three on top and nobody else. The feudal model is really appealing at first blush.
It was special. It had a spirit, or it had a vital force, that distinguished it from inanimate objects. And that high-profile feud , along with general interest in zoophytes and things like polyps, and improving technology like microscopes,
You could say it. But the feud is not a real thing?
He was then the first Secretary of State. instead of causing a feud with his Secretary of State, what Lincoln does is his skills with management of people are so extraordinary that a few months later, Seward tells his
Yes. For much of the time, he had been raised in a very devotly French Catholic household and that's why various forms of feudalism.
No, that's where you're going to get a scary emergent AI is these completely unsupervised, unwatched were dominated by feudal lords who had one priority-- make sure they're undeserving sons inherited other people's
I always say that I'm lucky. One of the biggest feuds in my family, for example, is my grandfather's wedding ring.
Why is it that we don't see, we don't hear about these people? And the English feudal system, the lord, you're a lord because you're a lord, because you take risks for others.
The country that actually did this most successfully was Japan, which in the Meiji reforms of the late 19th century changed Japan very rapidly from a traditional feudal samurai society where the most powerful weapon was the sword to one within a few decades that would turn Japan into the fastest industrializing country in the world with warships, it's own parliament, conscript army, and eventually colonies of its own.
They had always-- it's true. These were the former feudal lords and now the proto-aristocracy. So what they did was they came up with two innovations, two sort of core tenets
going back to feudal aristocracy times, you knew what the elite taste was, you knew what the peasant taste was.
Is it feudalism, where people rule people?
It favors two or three on top and nobody else. So you had feudalism, which started out as this bilateral agreement-- we're in a dangerous world.
And so feudalism made some sense.
because tribal raiding and feuding is a nuisance to imperial overlords since it just settles scores among them or shuffles resources at a dead loss to the
and the constant feuding among the war lords of the era, otherwise known as knights, gave way to the king's justice. At the same time, there was a growing infrastructure of commerce.
realize this is not feudalism at all.
And then the two sisters have a feud about language and also about a dictionary, the dictionary, like who gets it.
how I place myself in this fractious Feud of a global tradition we
It was special. It had a spirit, or it had a vital force, that distinguished it from inanimate objects. It sparked a 10-year feud between the two men, took up a huge amount of time on both of their parts, resulted in both of them publishing and writing
And it almost echoes this royalty-feudal system
Maybe not like this kind of feudalism of libertarianism, which is that we're all in a battle for resources and let the strongest win--
It was never up of a feudal lord.
Yes, instead of privately elected people, as in private capitalism, they had state officials. And the people who articulated feudalism said that.
People would bring all the stuff they had made or grown and they would trade it with each other. Instead of just giving everything to the feudal lord or the vassal now, they started to trade in a peer-to-peer fashion. And when bartering wasn't enough, they developed local currencies, market monies.
surroundings again in this sort of feudal attempt to replace consumerism with aism and on and on it
and-- the commons were part of feudalism.
And then we'd be like feuding all the time, yeah.
You'd perhaps live with a feudal system for 50 years or whatever.
It favors two or three on top and nobody else. If you think about historical feudalism, or you read about it, it eventually evolved into a more balanced government relationship.
It's a problem that defeated feudalism; it's a problem that defeated Soviet Union and Communist China.
late Middle Ages Europe end of feudalism what was going on people were doing stuff and getting rich that's what was happening there were Merchants starting
And this was the idea that sparked Nekrasov and Markov's feud .
Or do you think the argument or the feud they had wasn't even really about language, and it was part of their identity formation
often followed by cycles of revenge and vendetta and blood feud .
Because I hadn't been podcasting before that Chevy feud thing.
Yeah. Kumail Nanjiani starts feud with Mongols.
Yes. For much of the time, he had been raised in a very devotly French Catholic household and that's why growth in the in the free enterprise era versus the feudal era. So a lot of people thought Adam Smith is only
existed in China's history. They argued that Confucius was a purveyor of feudal thinking, old-fashioned thinking that held China back. They argued that some of his ideas such as benevolence led simply to a society that could never move forward, and that sometimes terror and the use of violent tactics
So this model is inherently based on trust. It's inherently based on the companies-- the feudal lords-- convincing the users to trust them with their data, their photos, their friends-- with everything.