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One might say, following someone like Huntington, and also Carroll Quigley, farther back, but following them only in part, that the concept of poverty itself has changed over some hundreds of years, perhaps several thousand years, as have many other related concepts.
One might say that poverty is the 'losing out', not merely of the lower so called classes, traditionally everywhere and in every civilization generally, but also of what have been called middle classes, in recent centuries in the West, in the necessarily intensified rivalry among civilizations."
One might say that poverty is the 'losing out', not merely of the lower so called classes, traditionally everywhere and in every civilization generally, but also of what have been called middle classes, in recent centuries in the West, in the necessarily intensified rivalry among civilizations."
The Helots, very like serfs.
The free Romans, perhaps the first relatively large middle class, toward the end of the Empire, ended up in so much debt and tax, owed to the fattest cats in Rome, that they found that for them the only way out was to sell themselves by contract and hereditarily as serfs, tied to a particular piece of land, a legal concept first coming to light under the Roman law of that time, especially Diocletian.
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