*you had the tribal which was prefeudal. basically "might makes right" was already in place but if you could make a spear you had might which gave you rights. There was no deeper philosophy needed.
*Then industry outpaced individual bodies. Steel being a prime example. If you cpuld make swords and armor you essentially had a way to give might and take might away. And in a feudal system that "might" still made rights.
The king held the smithery and retained loyal smith vassals which in turn helped enforce loyal soldiers which in turn helped enforce loyal farmers, which in turn helped enforce loyal miners that could fill the smithery with fine metals. History belonged to the kingdoms.
So you had a caste system of 4. Kings, vassals, peasants, and slaves.
Kings had to focus on military might over both their own and the foreigners.
vassals had to focus on their specialty in duty to the king. They held a trust with the king.
Peasants had to focus on production of their specialty. They could buy and sell but the king could tax
Slaves had to focus on service to vassals. They could never have money.
Then you had foreigners. Foreigners when discovered were either ignored, or killed, or became slaves, or peasants, or vassals - based on whether they were conquered or came willingly or had noticeable special skills.
Kings needed an operating system to manage all the trades. So they had corporations.
Corporations could only interface with each other so they had a second operating system that could interface between corporations and the rest. So you had another class of entity.
At this point the entity roster went up to 7. Kings, vassals, peasants, slaves, foreigners, corporations, trusts. You can bring this up to 8 because you had gods. At some point they were real but even when they were not, they could be used as symbolic philosophical controls by the king. Another operating system.
As technology and communication grew, a lot of shit happened. Vassals wanted more from the king, peasants wanted more from the vassals, slaves wanted more from their masters, corporations and trusts grew more complicated, foreigners often became pirates.
Republics were created, which began the era where these ancient roles began becoming hybridized.
Where we are today is not a set monarchy nor a pure band of pirates but a legal system that was technologically modernized but never escaped the ancient feudal systems.
You think there are no slaves, or pirates, or vassals, or kings. But all the ancient lingo is there. The practices are there, and the undercurrent of de facto rules are there. So if you ignore it, you suffer and cause others to suffer.
But, strangely, in all the confusion the operating systems have somehow become stronger than kings in some ways. Corporations and trusts became like gods. The corporations at the helm, the trusts more subtly controlling bebind the scenes. And the difference between kings and vassals, and everyone else, no longer had as much to do with specialized skills save for the comprehension of the operating systems.
What you have today is not a system that ended slavery, or ended kings, or ended foreigners. None of it. Everything grew and coiled together after glimpsing the breadth of the maze you might think "this is too confusing and nonsensical, it should all be burned". But I'm sorry. The maze is bigger than you. What you should be asking yourself is whether the maze is *navigable*. If it were not I would agree: perhaps it's better if we can all burn it down. But I believe it is navigable. Not because of some esoteric speculation, but because evidence shows many are navigating it.
What is helpful to do is find the real terms in modern day that fit the real entities named above.
