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by bmmayer1 3298 days ago
How is society becoming more feudal? I've heard this from so many people and the evidence doesn't seem to support it. For example, ~64% of Americans own a home. What % of feudal peasants owned a shovel, let alone a home?
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Really? 64% of Americans own a home debt free?
Never said that. But does the widespread ability of most Americans to finance a house, a car, and in general a better standard of living, without having to be rich, powerful, in the right caste or social strata not far trump feudal sharecropping/indentured servitude, one-step-removed-from-slavery conditions for a vast portion of the populace?

The claim was that society is becoming more feudal. I would like to see some evidence that is the case.