"Humble story teller" my ass. You are a modern day muckraker (and that is a very good thing in my book). Indeed, like any dialectic, the remnants of feudalism never went away. They just awaited their revival via the first Gilded Age (Robber Barons) and officially via Neoliberalism. I love your old/new table by the way. We had a brief deceleration in between during the Era of the New Deal. But we now pushing back on the acceleration, rushing us to Neofeudalism with a Fascist cherry on top. Bon Appetite! Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/when-the-wank-became-swank-money-banking-and-the-evolution-of-the-all-debt-economy-22e334f8ee3e