I raised this same analogy in a political theory class. conservative prof: go read Bloch! Me the day after: now i am convinced it is so.
Walmart has 2.3 million employees, which means the Walton family now controls more labor than any Feudal Lord, by a factor of hundreds.
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i genuinely and seriously want stats on how many square miles of territory they own also
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wait i looked it up and as of 2015 they had ~34 square miles worth of retail space. that doesn't count parking lots/warehouses/etc though.
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But still less than the Pentagon.
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Lord Walmart
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17% of the US workforce works for a Fortune 500 company. Monopsony anyone?
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Fuedal serfs only had to give a third of what they produced to their lords. We're taxed a lot more than that.
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Have you ever gone to a Walmart? "Controls." ;)
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