Which will fail without PHYSICAL force. You can't do Feudalism without the threat of physical force, you can try to coerce through access to market and the like but unless they fear you using force to.take everything it's only going to go so far.
And courts don't count as that's using a third party's force so they fear THEM not you.
At this level, how much of it is "business decisions" and how much is attempting to usher in this new feudalism they all seem so bloody enamoured of?
Which will fail without PHYSICAL force. You can't do Feudalism without the threat of physical force, you can try to coerce through access to market and the like but unless they fear you using force to.take everything it's only going to go so far.
And courts don't count as that's using a third party's force so they fear THEM not you.