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Pauperization (n.) came ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to Rome's plebeians through war: the service that ruined the plebeians filled patrician vaults with copper, which was then lent back to them at usurious interest.

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Pauperization (n.) follows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠expropriation: taking away the farm labourer's land made him first a proletarian, and in the end a pauper.