Good point to remember. I’m 72z in my life time I have seen inequality increase in all countries I can think of; rich and poor. Due mostly to poor immoral leadership and corruption.
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And...... The arrival of the Huns and the migration of the Barbarian tribes, Christianity and the loss of traditional values and Weakening of the Roman legions. All had a contributing factor to Rome’s collapse!
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Nope, after the fall of Roman Republic, the (Western) Roman Empire lasted another 500 years before the Huns came.
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What they needed was Communism right? Sorry Democratic Socialism
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Someone doesn't know their definitions...
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Nothing like revisionist history
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Gaping Inequality in wealth , access to resources , opportunity can become issue for discontentment . Politicians rarely wants to use learnings from History .....
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That’s why the barbarians attacked from outside the empire. The inequality they were witnessing.
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Entropy my dear Watson. Entropy. It lasted virtually for 700 years, even longer if you use fall of Constantinople 1452!
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The article was about the fall of the Republic and rise of Augustus as emperor, not the fall of the Empire.
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Thank you, I only read the headlines which was not specific. So the Republic lasted about 400 plus years - I have not checked on the exact dates.
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The article’s headline was really bad. The period of the imperators was a period of huge wealth inequality, though so was the preceding hundred years of the Republic so the correlation is flimsy and the don’t even try to suss out a causation.
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Inequality had nothing to with Rome downfall, lack of leadership integrity & misappropriation government spending.
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History has a habit of repeating itself.
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"Want to understand China? Read Thucydides. Need to know about Afghanistan? Best study Plutarch." (sic) the world’s longest-lasting republics fell by the end of the first century bc, to be replaced by autocracy. Rome was undone from within by greed and inequality—and by (read)
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“Within a society, people have little choice as to the ways in which they will satisfy basic needs (or fulfill their potentialities).” (Quigley 147, The Evolution of Civilizations)
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Is that why the barbarians invaded? Because the inequality?
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TFW morons in the reply section don’t know the difference between the fall of the Roman Republic, and the fall of Rome which happened 450 years later Land inequalities were indeed a partial cause of the fall of the Roman Republic.
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