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The Debt Slavery Cycle in Rome
As a member of Rome if the Senate says there's a war you have to go to war now wars are fought during the summer. You can't be home to work your farm, so you borrow money from the rich people and they put you on a debt repayment schedule that you can't cover because you were at war. So when you come back you haven't been able to grow crops to like the fullest extent Yeah, so you don't have enough money to then repay the rich people And then the rich people can can take you as a debt slave literally a literal debt slave Where you then have to work on the rich people's farms and you don't until you repay your your debt,.
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