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    1 month ago

    It’s funny that Rome is considered a good historical comparison, when the British Empire existed less than a century ago.

    Rome had an agrarian slave economy. Britain, a very modern financial system and industrial economy. If there’s a wealth of insight to be drawn from comparisons, it’s probably gonna be from the latter and not the former.