Jubilee year

 The Jubilee year was a very special year for the Jews, where once every 40 years, you released all your Jewish slaves, to live on their own field or work. If for some reason, that slave loved his owner so much or his obtained family, because that law didn't release the family you made, due to either they had a different date, they started to slave for this owner, or they might have not been even Jewish. In that case, if the slave loved his owner so much, he could have asked to remain in slavery and then his ear would be pierced, like having an ear ring on the entrance of the Masters house, and he would have to serve over the Jubilee year, for waving his rights, then he had the right to be released on that date. Why is that so important, to involve yourself with such an arcane and ancient law? Every now and when, the slave worked too well. And the Master didn't really want to give him up, because of a pesky Jubilee. Because good slaved, who do their work not only well, but with diligence and spirit -- We all have seen those workers, who work their jobs, "because they have to" or "because of the pay" or "Its the stepping stone to something better, but they didn't have enough hours with some program or in some profession to apply for the real job" etc. Without real spirit and goauld glimmer in their eyes. Its just their job, not the thing they there born to do! -- How do you let such a slave go, who has the spunk so to speak? And then some Masters started to abuse the Jubilee year and made it so, that the slave really wanted to stay, forcing them to beg to be kept in slavery. And sometimes they outright threattened to burn down your house, if you refused to return to your former lot. That upset God and his prophets great deal, because it made the people disgruntled and look to the Law in a discending manner, not thinking much about this God, who allows "One rule for thee, but not for me!" This was one of the reasons, why Israel lost in many border skirmishes against his neighbours. 

How does not letting your good worker go, affect the overall health of a nation? Because the good worker couldn't establish his own work field, he couldn't sell his grain on the market on his own terms, allowing the market to be stocked in accordance to the big stack bullies, who stagnated and got decadent, for lack of real competition. Because there was no real competition, they didn't need to improve nor respect their customers, and keep the Sheckel at 20 geras, but could inflate and deflate it at hearts content, thus earning more profit and inventing Capitalism!! Because the legal tender was volatile like that and cost less, then you bought, forcing to give out more money; and cost more then you sold, getting back less change. Eventually it empoverished more and more peasants into slavery and enriched the establishment more and more, thus alienating their hopes and dreams from each other. That in turn made militia drafting and eagerness to fend the borders so much harder, because you didn't view "Your Fartherland" but the wearhouses of this Obscenely rich Merchant to the Left; that Obnoxious Grifter Priest Manor to the Right and that Heinous slaver landlords fields in the Center. Why spill your blood on the border, then you spilt your sweat and toil on the market and on your every day work, then you got nothing in return?? And that was the real reason, why Israel did really poorly at war, every time, they became so rich in establishment, that they could ignore the Jubilee law... 

The same is true in our days with minimum wage workers. They are the slaves of our time, what allow the corporations to cut costs, while bullying the smaller businesses, not even having the ability to open up a shop. It may make people have a lavish life-style, but how many of those minimum wage workers, really wanna protect the border and die for their country and culture, then the hour of reckoning and doom is up? Wouldn't it be more fortunate, to be as Cosmopolitan as our leaders are, and vote with our boots? You never need morals on a good day; you need them on a bad night, to avoid yourself to be on the receiving end of malice and despair. For that reason, we have laws, like the Jubilee year, there we release our good slave to have his own business, and become our competition. Or it could also be the warring neighbour, who made up shop and bribed the paupers with gifts as happened in "Seven years in Tibet" movie... the choice is always yours to make. Have a nice day UWU