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I usually download Eurovision, as the politics isn’t new… Just more apparent.

Maybe find a Eurovision community and ask about alternate viewing methods? I’m sure there are other ways to watch live, which if you’ve got a gathering is the way to do it.

I thought it was a common first name because of all the fooling around in the Cyberdog dressing rooms?

No, that’s Europe.

The PRC days off are appalling in comparison. And the previous comment didn’t even mention make up days.

Generally they’re not, provided they can keep it low key.

And since within the PRC it’s quite easy to fire people, and courts and settlement is about how much 面子 you can make the company lose without pissing off local authorities vs. the 关系 and pressure they can bring to bear to have you drop it there’s not much to be done.

“ask” that people do overtime, and then fire them for not being a team player, or downmote them into a stressful deadend if they don’t take the voluntary overtime.

You’re right, as the medieval period progressed a lot changed. Those 1000 years were very different across space as well as time.

The conversation has also not been distinct with serf vs. peasant, which is an important distinction in conversations like this.

Thank you for the extra details and pointing out there Lords did still work to retrieve serfs.

Well post 1893, sure.

But even today, until we had a new class of mega-rich, let’s call them Billionaires - the nuevo-riche were always quick to be thrown under the bus by old money.

Now the power dynamic has shifted, but the billies will still, and do, chuck millionaire cronies to the crowds if it means avoiding responsibility and comeuppance.

Sadly/Unsurprisingly no-one goes from peasant to lord, short of being family of Jean of Arc.

I don’t think there’s another case of peasant to upper nobility in a single generation.

While true, it was next to impossible to keep track of people - there were no borders or division.

If a lord was offering a better deal (or their old Lord was too despotic), serfs could and would pack up and leave and there wasn’t much their old lord could do about it.

The other part of people moving to the towns was inventions of new tools such as better looms and improvements in metallurgy to make more precise tools.