Somehow Palpatine returned.

Welp.

Welp.

Welcome to the British History podcast.

My name is Jamie and this is episode 462, Defenestration Nation.

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And thank you very much to Philip, Valeria, and Sam

for signing up already. You've probably heard the phrase, it takes money to make money. And while

usually the person telling you that is trying to sell you something you don't need, there is

some truth to it, at least in the way our economy works.

It was also true in how feudal economies worked.

If you have enough money to buy something that makes money, something like an apartment

building, a business, or arable land, well, in several years, you will have more money than someone who didn't,

or more likely couldn't, make that investment and buy that business or that bit of land or

that apartment building. So you had more money to begin with, and now you have even more.

And this situation exacerbates itself if you're then able to pass that wealth down to your children,

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