[Age of Reason]

and in the process, create ENDLESS opportunities for those not yet wealthy to begin the process of getting there.

LOL

What wud de po slaves do wif no massa an' no plantashun?

[Bigun]

What wud de po slaves do wif no massa an' no plantashun?

And I suppose that, in your world, those of us struggling under a system which allows an outside agency, in this case the government, to lay, and enforce, an APRIORI claim against whatever portion of the fruits of ones labor it wishes are NOT slaves!

[Bigun]

Or in other words:

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Daniel Webster