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certain peasants, i.e. his serfs, the right to use plots of his land to live on, like in building their house on it, and to make their livelihood from by way of agricultural or trade activities.
Corvee is not evil; it was just a way of making payment, especially for a dwelling and its adjacent farmable fields, to the owner of that land, namely the landlord. Thus corvee occupies the same ethical status as paying rent in cash does today, and indeed, as Medieval Europe developed, trade increased, the towns and cities grew, and cash became more common, landlords, because it was now just more often possible, began accepting cash payments from their serfs for the right to continue living on and using certain plots of their land in lieu of a certain number of days of labor each month or year.
As cash becomes less and less available to common people in the developed countries, which is happening as the so called "middle class" goes away (it was always bound to be an ephemeral phenomenon and people were wrong to think that a broad middle class was a permanent fixture of modern life, since middle classes have, world-historically, which is to say in societies across the globe down through the earliest eras of history, have always been very small, like 10% to 20% of the society's population with 20% constituting a large middle class by world-historical standards), then payment in labor in return for rights or goods or services, like the right to occupy someone else's land or building, will have to become more common, since property owners will not be giving access to their property away (will not just make it free or freely available to people who need it), but instead will require a more or less equal payment in return for what the property owner, or merchant in the case of goods or services, is giving up. Markets take many forms, and a moneyed market, or one whose transacted are ordinarily mediates by exchanges or money, are just one form of markets and in fact