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Your reply is nonsense much more than the one you're replying to. Voluntarily entering a contract with bad terms has a lot less in common with feudalism than heavy handed government does. It's fine that you prefer the authoritarian government, but it doesn't change what feudalism was.

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FWIW, and not meant as a contradiction: while (talking Britain here particularly) many were still literally slaves under Feudalism (not serfs) and others Villiens (serfs tied to a property - the root of the once-classist word villain); there were also a great many free people taking contracts under bad terms, if only because it's easy for Lords to collude re wages for servants, etc, etc.

"Voluntarily" is doing a lot of work there. There is a huge power imbalance between employers and unemployed people looking for a job, especially as they may face bankruptcy and homelessness if they go too long without income.

Still less of a power imbalance than talking about the government. Let's not forget that the government is the one who enforces those non-competes. So you're really only talking about one subset of the government authority.

I think non-competes for workers should be banned. But I'm just saying there are other more feudalistic examples (good or bad) that exist.

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