The contents of this post, in some parts, is somewhat alien to me. The need to pick a side, root for someone, and figure out a winner. It's very sports team like and detracts from the goals, effects and outcomes of the topic itself. It is entirely possible that there are no good and bad sides, nor is there any need for someone to win any kind of made up trophy.

It does start with

> By all accounts, I should be a neofeudalist.

That kind of language is a neofeudalist cliche, "us vs them" while conveniently not mentioning the billionaire overclass.