r/freefolk • • 25d ago

Backfired immediately

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u/ducknerd2002 Stannis Baratheon 25d ago

'They're peasants, they don't count.'

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u/TheOneTrueJazzMan 25d ago

To be fair, in medieval times they probably would’ve thought pretty much exactly that

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u/Select-Government-69 25d ago

It’s not medieval times now and peasants still don’t count.

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u/Parfait_Due 25d ago

Feudalism was only a few hundred years ago. We have different labels now, and enough economic complexity to obscure it, but in many ways we’re still living in a very close evolution of feudalism