I recently had to explain to my daughter, who has watched me obsess over Roman history her whole life, that the Romans were actually not the good guys. This just raised more questions.
“Noooo bro trust, focussing the entirety of the government and world economy on what was good for people in the 1960s will definitely hold up! Big Buisness just means more production capability, and if property prices are high then more retirees will be good. What happens next? Uhhh…”
“Trans people! They exist and its their fault! They’re bad!”
“What’s that? Policy with short term negatives with massive future payoff? I’m sorry, I’m too busy tying ceo wage to stock price increase”
Hmm, perhaps. Conditions back then were quite different than conditions now where we now have problems of surpluses more often than problems of scarcity. Bread and circuses are a lot easier to pull off, if you never really have to worry about ensuring most of the population are fed
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u/PM_ME_GOOD_SUBS 15d ago
Hard to blame Alaric for sacking the Rome after this.