Going through the browns of Pharaonic history; not heiroglyph by heiroglyph on brittle papyrus; or tomb by Pharaoh on tomb in the Valley of the Kings; but just flipping though history with half bored casual fingers, I came across a testament of an Egyptian overseer, (an abstemious fellow who couldn't have come to much good) which said: "I did not take away a man's daughter nor his field."
Others obviously did. Grabbing the felahein's daughter and his field at the Nile's edge was a common pastime, it seems. For all you know Ra may have created the peasantry precisely so that ploughed field and virgin girl could be made available to the Pharaoh's overseers.
If this was bureaucracy four thousand years back, what are we fretting about?
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