One common thread I’ve picked up on my favourite ASOIAF tumblrs concerning Dany’s flawed emancipation efforts in Slaver’s Bay is that she didn’t hurt the base of Masters’ enormous economic wealth (land and gold/commodities) when she freed all the slaves. What would you have done with the bricks&mortar of a city like Meereen had you just conquered it? I personally like a Kibbutz system for the outlying agricultural area, but what about inside the city walls? Thanx for your help!

I’ve discussed this here. Primarily, what Dany needed to do was to redistribute the wealth of the Master class so that they lacked the mean to attack her new state, and to ensure that the freedmen were economically independent and thus don’t fall into a new pseudo-slavery. 

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