Sharecroppers worked the land but never owned the harvest.

After the Civil War they told farmers you work the land and we split the crop. Sounded fair until you realized the landlord owned the seeds, owned the tools, owned the storage, and decided what the harvest was worth. Farmers did all the work and ended each season owing more than they started. Took most of them years to figure out the game was rigged from the first signature. That’s WeTransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive now. You create the files, do all