@L0m3z imo, we're still in a valuation bubble, something Ben has commented on in the past.
Play the game with the house rules, you don't have to be the one buying the tulips, but if they're are buyers…
Ottoman officials forcibly collected young boys from the empire’s Christian subjects as a form of taxation. They were then taken back to Istanbul, forcibly converted to Islam, and trained to be the sultan’s military slaves, the Janisseries.
Ottomans launched slaving raids into Slavic lands, taking 3-5.5 million Christians as slaves, and the Barbary Corsairs captured over 1 million Christians as slaves in Western and Southern Europe.
Weasel move to say that churches weren’t taxed when all Christians had to pay a heavy Jizya tax, and no new churches were allowed to be constructed, and Christians had no legal rights in courts against Muslims who wronged them.
@trevoracorn my career has been primarly focused on East side revitalization, it is not as easy as money in & good results out. It's a little deeper than that.
That career has been in zips that are in noticably less "savable" than the paseo corridor. It's definately a worthwhile convo…