Like the establishment of artificial rhythms in the political realm, one that imposes a release of power, an interim period during which time a shemittat yad of power allows for narrative assaults on the power-wielders the likes of which would otherwise be considered treasonous, and like the extolling of free market competition and the business cycle which allows for the shemittat yad of economic power at the micro-economic scale, so the embrace of the sabbatical year establishes an artificial rhythm in the economic realm, one that imposes a release of power, an interim period during which time a shemittat yad of power allows for institutional assaults on the power-wielders the likes of which would otherwise be considered robbery.
Regular elections puts an upper limit on how much concentration of political power is acceptable in a politically autonomous (democratic) society. The sabbatical system puts an upper limit on how much concentration of economic power is acceptable in an economically autonomous (covenantally egalitarian) society.
The question is how does the bi-annual and quadra-annual cycle of elections interact with the seven year cycle of sabbatical years.
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