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This is neo-feudal just like Vampire: The Requiem was neo-feudal. Yes, the people at the ground level will continue to produce those things you need to survive — whether the “content” is writing or blood — but the ones getting rich off that, the vassals who shuttle that content from the serfs to the lords, are all vampires, feeding, feeding, feeding. They keep the serfs fed well enough to labor but hungry enough to fear and love the teat, these content-passing vassals, and like vampires they might fight and fuck but they don’t create. They take.
If Chris Anderson thinks neo-feudal stuff this is a great idea, then my love of Wired just dropped by half.
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Malcom Gladwell, Choire Sicha, assorted others
This is neo-feudal just like Vampire: The Requiem was neo-feudal. Yes, the people at the ground level will continue to...