How to pronounce “feudal” in English

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.

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.

- 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.

No, that's where you're going to get a scary emergent AI is these completely unsupervised, unwatchedwere dominated by feudal lords who had one priority-- make sure they're undeserving sons inherited other people's

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 rapidlyfrom 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 fastestindustrializing 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

among a certain class and people are more similar, you have to fight harder to achieve that distinction that was once possible when societies were more-- let's say,going back to feudal aristocracy times, you knew what the elite taste was, you knew what the peasant taste was.But-- Sure. --everyone in Brooklyn is within a certain bandwidth, let's say.

Yes. For much of the time, he had been raised in a very devotly French Catholic household and that's whyvarious forms of feudalism.

Yeah, there was that.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.

You had to have somebody.And so feudalism made some sense.And Locke's social contracts was, just rule us well or we have the right to cut off your head and replace you with somebody else.

Put in a remote spot for defensive purposes. Now you go to that castle and it actually makes a little sense. And then you look at this castle, and yourealize this is not feudalism at all.This is Romanticism. Neuschwanstein was built in the same generation as the Eiffel Tower, when Germany was uniting.

and someone who you can press a button on your phone, and they'll come do your hair.And it almost echoes this royalty-feudal systemthat we thought was something for historical drama.

Because my body language-- it was never of a prince.It was never up of a feudal lord.Again, because I've never seen them, never sat with them, never had dinner with them or lunch with them.

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

You'd perhaps live with a feudal system for 50 years or whatever.

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--

Yes, instead of privately elected people, as in private capitalism, they had state officials.And the people who articulated feudalism said that.

and-- the commons were part of feudalism.

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

Yes. For much of the time, he had been raised in a very devotly French Catholic household and that's whygrowth 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, theirphotos, their friends-- with everything.

down this stultifying, feudal, medieval class system that had held so much of that society back for centuries and centuries before that and that's kind of interesting, to me.

This is what it might be like to be in Feudal Japan.” And even though nobody knew this even existed before, so we did a lot of discussion that

Our food is very, very feudal.

And it was very really nearly barbarian, a feudal village.

But instead of labeling them as Buddhism is actually a lingering artifact from a feudal society that we lived in.

It favors two or three on top and nobody else.The other way that the metaphor works-- and other people have written about this-- the feudal metaphor-- is that, in a feudal system, everything is owned.

That was the basis of that island's remarkable movement from a feudal backwater to an industrial powerhouse in just one generation.

And really we went from essentially what was still kind of based in feudal society and feudal law. Particularly in Europe and in some sense the

And I like it as a metaphor both because there's a real, rich historical metaphor, and because everyone's watching "Game of Thrones." So you can pull from both sources.And if you go back to classic, medieval feudalism, it was a system designed for a dangerous environment whereyou needed someone more powerful than you to protect you.

It favors two or three on top and nobody else.I don't know. I really liked your feudalism analogy, and I see one potential flaw in it.

And that particular paradox is one that has shaped the China we see today.After half a century or more of Confucius being downgraded or condemned by Mao as a feudal character, now we're back in a world where Confucian language--

Before 1949, it's thousands and thousands of years of feudal society, which is one with an emperor in the imperial court, and the rest is a feudal peasant system.

and my parents presented communism to China, which is against the feudal system, against the superstition, against the whole thing,

And you can't run your own Facebook.So the model I think of when I think of this type of computing environment is feudal security-- and that's "feudal" with a "d," and not with a "t." It'sthat we, as users, have to pledge our allegiance to some powerful company who, in turn, promises to protect us.

It favors two or three on top and nobody else.--thought about it. As I understand it, feudal lords were pretty much monopolists.

It favors two or three on top and nobody else.So this lack of a public sphere in the world where we are all associating is another way the feudal model works.

that we can have some peace for those of us who realize this is that that may be somewhat feudal this is a way to take

Really what happened after the Industrial Age was the legal system moved from kind of a feudal model based on property, to a property