yo i was just reading about the fabricae and fabricenses as a hereditary & inescapable profession (not really, in the grand scheme of things) but the Praetorian Prefect was charged with checking all the branches of imperial service for deserters from other parts. Soldiers and craftsmen like the fabricenses were literally branded, and that's when you were lucky enough to not be a slave of the state working in dyeworks, mints, or textile factories

anyway can't wait to be barcoded and and contract over my offspring to the end of time in service of the McDonald Corp.