Feudalism is making a return to the light, instead of existing in the shadows of the streets and in the protection of big corporations. The modern era works on the premise of ‘ranks’, you the people, educate yourselves to rise higher in rank or maybe creating your own system. The ûber-wealthy knows that the only resource worth anything is talented people.
If you lose everything, so long as you’re talented and see patterns in certain economic ‘areas’ no one else does, you can with relative ease rebuild a sizable fortune.
But this mostly only extends to the 1st generation wealthy and sometimes the 2nd, oftentimes the 3rd generation is just a cesspool of never knowing anything but pleasure and where money comes from, as long as there’s money in the account they live their depraved and ignoble existences. So if you are a talented person with a money making idea where everyone benefits, never share it with a 3rd generation fool, take it higher or maybe work for your own starting capital.
This act is called; seeking shelter from a larger tree, or becoming the tree yourself.
The advantage to this seeking shelter is that you recieve the resource of those who already planted a tree before that became a towering giant and went through a literal fight for a piece of industrial cake, and do not have to face these things by yourself. You would instead have a backer who shares your interests and will become wealthier with you, but try never to agree to unreasonable demands in the division of benefits from your own ideas.
The current situation of Planet Earth as a unified global economy is that services and goods are avaliable faster, easier and cultivates wealthy people. But the downside to this is that not many wealthy people invest their money in growing their local communities, and jobs are in their eyes, never supposed to be reimbursed fairly.
The costs are rising everywhere in the world and in turn, profits also increase, but salaries are not increasing to keep up with that growth. Any small business that evolves into a multi-national corporation goes through steps, steps that were already walked by others, so there are paths to follow quite clearly depending on which industry you are in. But back to the point, feudalism is returning.
On this Planet Earth which has been plagued by wars throughout human time, there exists a hidden world. Well it is not very well hidden, it is just that no one really truly believes the amount of power it possesses. And that is the industry of Force.
Most multi-national corporations have clout in certain low-income countries which gives them sometimes more power than even the local government officials. Since their promise is to create jobs and opportunity in areas where this is scarce, and in turn giving more money to the state of said countries.
The problem with this is the formation of economic terrorism performed by multi-national corporations, where they do not deliver on their promises to the workers that make them millions and billions, which is also mostly due to the corrupt officials in said countries, but the countries themselves can not be blamed for not having the necessary strength and resources to be self-sufficient.
Planet Earth is only so-and-so large, and the cake has been unequally divided into a system of trickle-down resources and possibility made possible by the Force Industrial Machine.