Speaking of the palace guard, the billionaire bunker builders don’t have a contingency plan for keeping their security people loyal if society actually does collapse.
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Yeah. Lol. That always gets me. Medieval lords weren't descended from Roman governors and merchants. They were descended from warlords and soldiers.
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The first batch might have been Roman landholders. I've heard the theory that Roman taxes caused landowners to be more "self sufficient" and were punitive towards others. So it got to the place people were forced to sell themselves as labor to pay their taxes.
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