Civil War, Part II

[--Pete]

Hi,

If that's all it takes to be a vassal, then how is any employee not a vassal of their employer?

Not to impugn the rest of your statement, this part does not make sense. Kandrathe's point is that if you give almost two thirds of your income to a third party (who, BTW, is not your employer), you can rightfully be considered that party's 'vassal' (or 'sharecropper', or 'indentured servant', or a number of less polite though more modern terms). An employee does not give 60% of his earnings to his employer (although the employer may make a large profit from the employee's work). The relationship between employer and employee is not vassalage -- though it can sometimes be unfair in other ways (both ways, given the power of the unions at times).

--Pete