[MIchaelTArchangel]

“...the wealthy became even wealthier at the expense of the rest of the population,’ says Beck, (yet another socialist from Sweden).

[decimon]

“...the wealthy became even wealthier at the expense of the rest of the population,’ says Beck, (yet another socialist from Sweden).

Beck may well be socialist but the system described (like the rest of Europe, an aristocracy) was likely as described.

[FrdmLvr]

In those days the king did take from the people.