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by eli_gottlieb 482 days ago
> People tolerated a caste system because they were information poor.

Well no. Peasant rebellions/uprisings happened all the time. People tolerated the feudal system because those rebellions could at best pressure for greater leniency within the system, while it took the later historical developments of urbanization and increasing labor productivity to actually overthrow the system.