And the problem is if I try to go into any nuance about how the two might be different in either philosophical or practical terms you'll just say
In practical terms they're somewhat different because technology and all, but not philosophically. The corporation represented either through an elected legislature or an elected King and his Lords are still making a claim on a portion of the labor of their "subjects" that is owed first to the state and not to be used as the laborer sees fit.
The feudal period had plenty of labor riots and even Kings/Lords were toppled in tax revolts just for moving things a percentage point or two. Often the state could have and did crush these revolts, but many times they actually changed Lords or changed taxes "peacefully" in what was in effectively an election by informal means.
We waste billions on a whole pageantry choosing our next leader that's mostly controlled by the elite just as they did.
Our capabilities have increased because capabilities always increase faster than power and are more exponential.
The idea that "all men are created equal" hasn't yet hit critical mass, but the notion of its pre-existence as a liberty has done a lot to stand athwart power saying "stop!" And it's when enough said "stop" to certain things that the state shifts how it deployed and distributed its power. Hopefully someday it
will hit critical mass and allow for a path where not using violence for personal gain also does. I think it will help when we don't have to talk about Americans and Iranians as different in their natural liberties that Americans and Iranians won't have to come up with reasons to justify using coercive violence against the other.
