Obviously capitalism bad, but it bought greater production, technological advance, medicine, and treats for the lucky. I just wonder if 15th century serfs in France got any material benefit from owing most of their harvest to the lord. Did Baron Scrotumface help them make better plows and scythes, or was it all just expropriation?
This is a very low effort question because I’m tired from work.
Feudalism was a step up from the slave economies of the previous era, but not by much. While peasants and serfs had more rights than slaves (such as being able to own property of their own), they were still at the whims of the nobility.
Also, slavery still existed, so it’s not like any progress made a difference for the slave populations across the globe. Even as feudalism gave way to capitalism in the American south, the form of slavery practiced there was especially brutal when compared to other slavery practices elsewhere.
I’d have to go look it up, but IIRC slave economies like Rome and Mali were at war more than fuedal societies that replaced them.