• Blackout@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    Everyone knows it was government inefficiency. If only they had an Elon Musk to steal their money fix everything.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      5 days ago

      On one hand, I want to say that Roman corruption was legendary and that virtueless cretins like Musk probably would’ve had a field day.

      On the other hand, I want to say that Roman corruption was so ill-defined, government and economics so intertwined, and politicking so cutthroat and capricious that incompetent cretins like Musk probably would’ve ended up exiled to some Gr*ekoid rock in the Aegean Sea.