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Labor has the power they want us to forget. (lemmy.ml)
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400x not 400%

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

At least when a king or empire extracted money

They really did not. You may have had one or two that wanted more for the country. Most were just greedy shithouses who could not care at all. Unless they needed bodies for a war OFC, then the dynamic changes.