Maybe you replied to the wrong comment? Peasants under a feudal lord couldn’t work elsewhere. If an engineer was fired from SpaceX they’d have another job before the end of the month… and if they didn’t then they wouldn’t starve to death because of welfare. That seems materially different.

> If an engineer was fired from SpaceX they’d have another job before the end of the month

This is just wrong

Have you not been paying attention to the last five years of layoffs and a decimated technology labor market?