Serfs
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Russian aristocrats used to sell whole villages and estates, including their peasant
serfs
, as if the latter were inanimate objects, not human beings.
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This is because Medieval society followed a feudal system that divided the clergy and nobility from the working classes, made up of peasants and
serfs.
A slight adjustment of spelling, and rabota became the Czech robota, which, in addition to defining the toil of the serfs, was also used figuratively to describe any kind of hard work or drudgery.
Others were more like European
serfs.
One third of the global population producing 5 percent of the wealth because they didn't get this change, because they kept treating their people like
serfs
instead of like shareholders of a common project.
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