In feudalism, all things being average, a vassal benefits from loyalty to a lord because the lord provides protection (because the lord considers the vassal's land ultimately theirs and the vassal primarily as a steward of it).
Corporations buying up and renting real estate is worse than feudalism because you're just paying them for the right to live in a place. Protection such as it is is "outsourced" to the police, but the police don't actually have a material incentive to keep the peace either because they get tax money one way or the other. If anything, some crime is good for business because it provides political leverage to call for more tax money.
So please, let's bring on feudalism because it would actually align incentives far better than what we have now.
Corporations buying up and renting real estate is worse than feudalism because you're just paying them for the right to live in a place. Protection such as it is is "outsourced" to the police, but the police don't actually have a material incentive to keep the peace either because they get tax money one way or the other. If anything, some crime is good for business because it provides political leverage to call for more tax money.
So please, let's bring on feudalism because it would actually align incentives far better than what we have now.