The debate over merit and luck has been with us for millennia, and even the hereditary absolute monarchs of the Bronze Age had to find a way to resolve it. For the rulers of antiquity, the way to square that circle was *jubilee*.
Bronze Age jubilees were periodic celebrations in which all debts were canceled.
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