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The elite core of skilled workers and scribes were paid in kind as money had not been invented. They too would got their food, clothing, vast quantities of beer, a town to live in and even health care.

As for the slaves only food and shelter, no clothes, as a slave you went naked.

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they didn't get paid only food and shelter, not even clothes as slaves they went naked

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