• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know that life on Empire-era Tatooine was quite as bad as life as a woman in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, but maybe.

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      8 months ago

      They still had chattel slavery while the Republic was around and it was controlled by a mafia family and they had to constantly be on the lookout for the Native population that did not like them being there.

      Or check out pictures of impoverished farmers in the Great Depression. Even the 18 year olds looked old. Here is homesteader Jim Norris at 37 years old:

      https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Norris,_homesteader_1a34135v.jpg