Yeah, because everybody knows the obvious answer. It’s untethered capitalism. And no it hasn’t always been that way. Politicians weren’t always whores for the rich. That’s a rather recent development that can absolutely be stopped by the will of the people.
As much as I respect your argument; the Romans. Or any civilisation really. It literally has always been that way.
I don’t know enough about Roman politics to contradict but “any civilisation really” is definitely too broad of a stroke.
Greed and corruption has been around for as long as land and money have.
Sure. But it only really becomes a problem in very large communities. A chieftain overseeing 50-100 villagers isn’t as easily corrupted.
At that point, the scale is just different. That’s when the brother of the chief gets to build his new hut on the nice hill.
Listen, we here are Orphan Crushing Incorporated are a family business…
Will nobody think of the jobs in the orphan crushing industry?
