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In reply to the discussion: "Rome was bankrupted by wealthy landowners using control of the senate to shift taxation downward" [View all]

Ikonoklast

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7. Too late.
Reply to mick063 (Reply #3)
Sat May 4, 2013, 09:22 AM
May 2013

Our current slide into becoming a fascist state is the beginning of the endgame.

The Chinese will do the same thing before the end of this century.

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"Rome was bankrupted by wealthy landowners using control of the senate to shift taxation downward" [View all] HiPointDem May 2013 OP
The transformations of the Empire in late antiquity were complex phenomena ... Recursion May 2013 #1
your professor's comment is a simple description. everything is simple, and everything is complex. HiPointDem May 2013 #2
Military expansionism mick063 May 2013 #3
Too late. Ikonoklast May 2013 #7
K&R Sherman A1 May 2013 #4
Very interesting. k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth May 2013 #5
oh damnit i hate learning stuff early on a saturday morning but well worth the read dembotoz May 2013 #6
Reminds me of the beginning of "Capitalism: A Love Story": marmar May 2013 #8
Exactly, I see it happening here also gopiscrap May 2013 #9
Rome fell because of the number of slaves, about one-third of the population. Coyotl May 2013 #10
i doubt it. this is like saying rome fell because there were too many workers. slaves produced HiPointDem May 2013 #12
Slaves produced value for their wealthy masters, but not for the general welfare of the community. Coyotl May 2013 #13
if a master had 400 slaves, odds are a large percent of them were producing agricultural HiPointDem May 2013 #15
Wikipedia! Coyotl May 2013 #16
Julius Caesar tried and got the ziggy for it. Octafish May 2013 #11
ROFL... SidDithers May 2013 #14
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