Fiefdom Isn't Free

Despite our fancy notions that we've come so far - historically speaking - since the Bad Old Days, having brought about a little number called the Industrial Revolution, not to mention preemptively invading nations to "promote democracy," maybe we haven't come that far. 

Just ask the sharecroppers of Sark - a tiny island fiefdom in the English Channel - where medieval feudalism ended, literally, the other week.