That 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,

That 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''.