We still live in a 'Might makes right' society. The only thing that has changed since Medieval times is 'Might' means 'Money'.

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margalabargala 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair this is at least an improvement over Medieval times when 'Might' meant 'ancestry'.

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plastic-enjoyer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

How is this different to being born into wealth?

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margalabargala 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

In the 1300s you could be broke but if you had the blue blood you still had power.

People today can become wealthy, and wealthy people can lose wealth, much much easily than nobility was created or revoked under feudalism.

There's objectively more social mobility. That's an improvement. Don't confuse "it's an improvement" with "it's an acceptable and desirable end state".

	▲	keybored 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t know. For some reason when I think of social mobillity I think of Genghis Khan.

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_DeadFred_ an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I still argue that our current capitalist system is nothing more than an extension of the Norman system. Only capitalist executives see even less of the humanity of their ‘customers’ and the damage from their policies/maximal extraction than medieval lords saw in the serfs of the village that their policies/maximal extraction impacted.