and now in modern culture this has become accepted as if it were ok. sanandas knowledge of the way this came about over hundreds of years , from the land owner taking rent in the form of produce , labour or favour , to him taking first dibs on a newlywed wife , to him having the right to punish by death or taking into slavery , to him teaming up with other fat cats to organize mobs which protect the fortune they had procured , charging it all to their tenants .