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Did feudalism provide any benefit for the peasants and serfs or was it just expropriation? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by ButtBidet@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Obviously capitalism bad, but it bought greater production, technological advance, medicine, and treats for the lucky. I just wonder if 15th century serfs in France got any material benefit from owing most of their harvest to the lord. Did Baron Scrotumface help them make better plows and scythes, or was it all just expropriation?

This is a very low effort question because I'm tired from work.

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ostensibly the lords were supposed to provide military protection against other lords and such

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Protection racket

[–] context@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

very-intelligent "i'm only using violence to expropriate the surplus value of your labor to make sure nobody else can use violence to expropriate the surplus value of your labor, and yet you complain?"

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Also judicial/police, and when the church was the feudal lord, entertainment