That happened but didn't take assets into account. People that still had them profited very well. There was also a "Lastenausgleich", the English article is qui

That happened but didn't take assets into account. People that still had them profited very well. There was also a "Lastenausgleich", the English article is quite bad though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastenausgleich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastenausgleich Especially the quote about it being the source of the rapid growth period is a bit ridiculous in my opinion.