Yes, not the same, Tycho Brahe, estimated to own 1% of the entire wealth of Denmark at the time, treated his workers as slaves [1], and even owned a slave as je

Yes, not the same, Tycho Brahe, estimated to own 1% of the entire wealth of Denmark at the time, treated his workers as slaves [1], and even owned a slave as jester [2]. Today we have wages. [1] "Gellius appears to have feared that Tycho wanted to keep him on Hven 'working like a slave.'", 1991, Victor E. Thoren, The Lord of Uraniborg. A Biography of Tycho Brahe, Cambridge University Press, p. 357 [2] ibid., p. 193