Will Durant: "From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day."
https://www.tftc.io/monetary-inflation-history-rome-modern-lessons/
"The commonwealth was not yet lost in Tiberius's days, but it was already doomed and Rome knew it. The fundamental trouble could not be cured. In Italy, labor could not support life..." - Vladimir Simkhovitch, "Rome's Fall Reconsidered"
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Remember this guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0eSuxu84
I don't really like his "maybe the oligarchs will save us" solution, but the assessment of the problem seems right. Maybe he just knew that he wouldn't be allowed to work on it, in that administration.
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