RE: https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher/116898508370546669
#debtPrisons are part of the #MAGA #Project2025 plan to copy the Hapsburgs’ game plan in Spain BUT!
each wave of deportations (expulsiones) temporarily enriched a handful of people while the crown became a money pit and the country had no sovereign wealth to show for their so-called empire.
all those italians that ended up all over américas in the 1800s? collateral damage from the crown selling off their european lands to liquidate debts.
btw: Cervantes wrote El Quijote in a debtors’ prison.
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