The ordinary consumer received regular debt relief for thousands of years before creditors took control of the Roman state. Creditors have controlled every major nation since that time:
https://michael-hudson.com/2022/01/on-debt-parasites/
"That was what the first sermon of Jesus was all about.
"When he went to the synagogue, and Luke explains that he unrolled the scroll of Isaiah the prophet and said, '
I’ve come to proclaim the year of the Lord,' which was the debt cancellation — the Jubilee year — that was brought in from Babylonia into Judaism, as it was done all through the Near East."
"Assyria had it when it conquered Judea.
"Babylonia had it when it conquered Judea and took the exiles to Babylonia, and the exiles, picked up, literally the same word used in Babylonia for a clean slate (debt cancellation), brought it back to Israel, and word for word had the same conditions of a clean slate: when a new ruler took the throne, or when there was other reasons — a war was over, or there was any reason for a debt cancellation — you’d cancel the debts, you’d liberate the debt servants to go back to their families, you’d give them back the pledges that they’d made."