400x not 400%

    • Syldon@feddit.uk
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      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.