A handful of AI companies now control the core infrastructure for thinking, searching, writing, coding, teaching, deciding. They do not just sell tools. They become the terrain. That is where neo-feudalism starts to make sense as a frame. In old feudalism, the lord owned the land. In AI neo-feudalism, the platform owns the cognitive land. You do not farm wheat on it - you farm attention, content, software, insight, distribution, relationships, income. And the peasants are not

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Professionalism was never a description of competence. It was a set of visible proxies for trustworthiness, assembled alongside the expansion of Western bureaucracies, corporations, universities, law and medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The suit. The controlled voice. The correct accent. The restrained body. The office. The separation between public self and private self. Two models fused into what we now call professional. The American corporate man, sober