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Although not quite the same, ironic how Rome does have a _long_ history of debt forgiveness during times of crisis [0] [0] https://fee.org/articles/the-slow-mo
by orangepanda 7y ago
Although not quite the same, ironic how Rome does have a _long_ history of debt forgiveness during times of crisis [0]
[0] https://fee.org/articles/the-slow-motion-financial-suicide-of-the-roman-empire https://fee.org/articles/the-slow-motion-financial-suicide-o...
- bilekas 7y agoIronic ?
- StavrosK 7y ago"Ironic" in the sense of "completely expected due to them behaving like this consistently in the past".
- bilekas 7y agoI'm not sure if you consider this a bad thing though
- cowsandmilk 7y agosounds like agreeing with you in questioning why someone would call it ironic...
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoWow there is an article with it's agenda clearly emblazoned on its sleeve. No messing :-) The Roman Empire's collapse had dozens of interacting causes, from slavery and expansionism-collapse to leadership failures that make any corrupt politician today seem laughable. To boil it all down to "Welfare" seems, disingenuous at best, and hopelessly partisan at the midpoint. That said, yes, many societies have tried to make up for their systemic unfairness with debt forgiveness. Unless you fix the underlying causes however, the debt comes back.
- 6510 7y agoThen you just jubilee again. Its a lot less complex/fuzzy if the king or church are the major lender.
- FranzFerdiNaN 7y agoThat is one bad article. You cant just go ''well the Romans, who lived literal millenia ago and functioned within a completely different socio-economic system, did X and Y, so doing this in the 21st century is bad''. History should be left to historians, not to libertarian think tanks cherry-picking examples to support their 21st century agenda. That is pretty much the only way to prevent people writing ''Rome fell in 476''.