IronClaymore posted:

Oh, it's more than "stealing credit". The people at the top provide the capital, and those under them provide the labour. As members of the proletariat, all we have to sell is our labour.

It's feudal because those at the top provide very little of their own effort, and suffer very little real risk, while those at the bottom do the work and risk the most. So what if the company fails? The CEO gets a golden handshake, the executives have generous severance packages and years of high salaries saved up. They risked nothing really. As in, they still have a roof over their heads and food in their mouths. Oh no! They might have to trade in their gold-plated private jet for a silver-plated one! What a loving travesty.

No solution here, by the way. I'm not a socialist either. Personally I think it'd be nice if we spent the next few years making as many nukes as we could and then just passed them around everywhere and detonated them. Barbiturates and alcohol for everyone would be much easier of course, but may as well kill a few more species too, as well as us.