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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life in Cycles

by bell-cot on 10/18/25, 8:31 AM with 14 comments

• by jstanley on 10/18/25, 5:17 PM

  > the heavy extraction regime they operate under

  It might be interesting to quantify this. How does it compare to typical tax rates today?

• by throwup238 on 10/18/25, 4:29 PM

  This is a great series and I’d love to see an addendum covering different staples like rice, alternative social structures like tribal systems, and the impacts of different forms of irrigation.