How would anyone be able to afford anything if all their possessions were under hardened magma
It wasn’t magma, it was 4-6m of ash and pumice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii
Romans were known to take poor people and make them slaves, that's one solution
It wasn’t magma, it was 4-6m of ash and pumice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii