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  • KISSmyOS@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzGolden
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    4 months ago

    BECAUSE pictures weren’t common, it was hard to start a new life. If you were an adult and knew no one in the town you arrived at, no one would trust you, give you a job or rent out a room to you. Cause they’d all assume there was a good reason you ran away from the place where people knew you, and there was no way to verify if you were who you claimed to be.
    If you had a profession, you needed a letter of recommendation from your former employer or your guild to vouch for you.




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    4 months ago

    Back then, starting a new life would have made you an indentured servant doing back-breaking farm labor to pay back your voyage to the former colonies, which just got done fighting a war against your country.
    You couldn’t just move 2 towns over and get a new job while keeping your station in society.