The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Feudalism makes the rules of society more explicit and legible. Therefore, feudalism benefits people who benefit from the rules of society being explicit and legible, and harms those who benefit from the rules of society being opaque. Much follows from this.https://twitter.com/Alephwyr/status/1198720602250473472 …

Feudalism is probably superior to most forms of tribalism. Capitalism is probably superior to most forms of feudalism. If you have something better in mind, the onus is on you to prove it, in theory or in practice. I'm not confident anyone has done so in either case.

Capitalism is a system where the stuff needed for production (factories, computers, raw materials, etc.) is owned by a small group, and the rest of the population has to sell their labor to that group in order to gain access to necessities resulting from production.

Having a small, largely hereditary group control production is certainly one way to run a society, but there are many other ways we could instead. We could have those doing the work control the means of production, keep markets in place in certain sectors, plan directly in others

What I'm trying to say is there's a whole big universe of ways we could organize production. Hierarchies of lords who owned farmer peasants was one way. Hierarchies of bosses with varying degrees of control over capital in markets is another.