alt Hacker NewsI do not get the obsession with fall of Rome being a bad thing. Look at taxation, look at big part of population being in slavery. Their military machine, roads and civilisation was basically just to crash rebelions!
Today we have taxation around 30 to 70 percent. Imagine if taxes would be at 10% and we would not have to sponsor all sort of "adventures".
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riffraff • yesterday at 9:24 PM
taxes were very low for the majority of civilization and war was way more prevalent than it is today.
That's an interesting point and worth discussing.
I'm not sure why you got down voted. Maybe people are perceiving some subtext that I'm not.