How is it that the Jews have managed to be tax collectors and stay close to the money since Babylonian times? That's an incredible level of longevity

Problematic question

>>17865177 (OP)
They are smart people, but reputations are very hard to get rid of. I'll give you an example. This is from the Book of Nehemiah.
>The King of Persia sent this reply: To Rehum the commanding officer, Shimshai the secretary and the rest of their associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in Trans-Euphrates: Greetings. The letter you sent us has been read and translated in my presence. I issued an order and a search was made, and it was found that this city has a long history of revolt against kings and has been a place of rebellion and sedition. Jerusalem has had powerful kings ruling over the whole of Trans-Euphrates, and taxes, tribute and duty were paid to them. Now issue an order to these men to stop work, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order. Be careful not to neglect this matter. Why let this threat grow, to the detriment of the royal interests?

>>17865194
why?

Money lending was forbidden or unprofitable because you couldn't charge interest to people the same religion (Christian/Islam), and because nobody liked Jews they were only allowed to work certain fields, one of which would end up being money lending. Not every Jew becomes "rich" but the 1% eventually accumulated enough capital that it's worth it for the local nobility or the king to just seize all their assets and expel them. Rinse and repeat because it happened a couple dozen of times. When they got expelled and set up shop in a new area the 1% would again take up money lending because it was all they really knew and would get rich again, until eventually expelling them was out of fashion and that 1% finally started being able to exert influence with capital because Capitalism had started. Then the Rothchilds fund the British War effort and stuff the right pockets and British Mandatory Palestine becomes Israel and here we are.

>>17866339
>the local nobility or the king to just seize all their assets and expel them.
Why doesn’t this happen anymore?

>>17866339
I'm not talking about money lending. Jews were even more frequently tax collectors, going from village to village on behalf of the king. This role would go all the way back to the Babylonian era