09/02/2026
For several years, I have wrestled with how to describe the unhealthy power imbalance between large corporations and the smaller contractors and workers who actually perform the work.
I believe the clearest description is corporate feudalism.
Smaller companies may technically be independent, but when a dominant customer controls access to the work, dictates the price, writes every contractual term and transfers most of the risk downward, that independence can become an illusion.
My new article, “Corporate Feudalism: When Capitalism Loses Its Conscience,” challenges these practices—but it also offers a better way forward.
I believe capitalism can be a tremendous force for good when power is submitted to principle and business relationships are built around reciprocal accountability, human dignity and the opportunity for everyone to prosper.
We do not need to move the hammer from one side of the table to the other. We need to stop treating business relationships like someone must always be holding a hammer.
Technology and infrastructure should serve people. Not the other way around.
I would value your honest thoughts after reading it:
https://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2026/the-lords-of-the-network-has-wireless-contracting-become-corporate-feudalism/