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Feudalism
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Yet the influencer was plainly a laboring class, as opposed to one with ownership over any productive asset. For the job of an influencer requires constant effort to harvest attention.
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― The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
― The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
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As I pointed out, feudalism is essentially a redistributive system. Peasants and craftsmen produce things to a large extent autonomously; lords siphon off a share of what they produce, usually by dint of some complex set of legal rights and traditions ("direct-juro-political extraction" is the technical phrase I learned in college), and then go about portioning out shared of the loot to their own staff, flunkies, warriors, retainers - and to a lesser extent, by sponsoring feasts and festivals an
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― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory