When I was a kid, my dad said he’d give me a nickel for every crab apple I picked up off of the ground and put in a sack. I spent an hour with the biggest stick I could running around knocking crab apples off of all of the trees before I started picking them up. That is this game.
A peon is any person under peonage which is any form of exploitative labour where the employee has little to no control over conditions. Basically slavery except you get paid a few crumbs before hand as a loophole. In America after the 13th amendment slavery was outlawed, however, many southern farmers found ways of working around the system - particularly through the use of sharecropping or what looks to be happening in the game Debt Bondage. Debt bondage is where someone is payed in advance on the promise of service where the interest is excessive compared to the loan or where there is no clear terms. So yes you had been effectively engaging in slavery but with extra steps…