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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you really need feudal conditions for landlords to do this?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feudal economic conditions lead to this kind of rent seeking behaviour being taken to the extreme

For reference, it was common in pre-Mao China for landlords to take 90% of the harvest from a peasant, who did the labor just to be able to get the remaining 10% because they owned no land on which to farm their own crops.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting and outrageous but it doesn't answer my question at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The answer is that feudal conditions aren't needed but that's not what the other person said.