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Jiang treats Spain's clergy and nobility as parasitic elites who absorbed wealth while making no productive contribution.
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Jiang treats Spain's clergy and nobility as parasitic elites who absorbed wealth while making no productive contribution.
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"And all this money just made the system even worse. So let me explain. is that there's a rigid hierarchy of status. The nobles..."
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