[radioone]

"The main element of these trends is the tremendous growth in the number of people (and in their proportion in the population) who are directly dependent on government benefits to a substantial degree."

"Serfdom included the labor of serfs occupying a plot of land owned by a lord of the manor in return for protection and justice and the right to exploit certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence."

[CowboyJay]

""Serfdom included the labor of serfs occupying a plot of land owned by a lord of the manor in return for protection and justice and the right to exploit certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence.""

Would you then say a substantial portion of the 1/3rd of the population that actually does anything productive have been reduced to serfdom or worse by the other 2/3rds, as they are having an increasingly difficult time maintaining their subsistence?