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Originally Posted by kagato3
While it is a voluntary servitude (and this point is even made in some addaptions), a maid is not a serf because they can quit. Something a lot of fiction forgets is being a servent is not the same as being a slave and lording over the help is a very bad idea in real life.
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Here is the problem: They are still serfs because their rightful lord never released them from their serfdom, nor did their current masters gain their release by some sort of adversarial contest with their rightful lord. Except now they're serfs that are serving a master who isn't obligated to give them the protection of law, military, and social security like their rightful lord.