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Originally Posted by malloyd
This is the point I was making about labor mobility. In many economies this is impossible because there simply are no wage jobs. In the very common case where most of the economy is subsistence agriculture, if nobody other than your owner has any open land, there are no jobs to change to even if you were free.
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It's not strictly necessary to have wage jobs, just an alternative that provides food and shelter. Of course, the alternatives were generally worse than staying.