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And it will likely prove that people will pay $2.99 to cause and get involved in shit storms and lynchmobs :-(

• fxtentacle 5y ago
  I believe in Rome, people where quite happy to pay handsomely to get a front row seat for watching gladiators get mutilated by lions. Maybe we have progressed less than we thought.
  • rsj_hn 5y ago
    I never thought of the old liveleaks site as a type of roman colosseum but I think you're right
  • bambax 5y ago
    Do we know that? I think most games were free? (I'm not sure).
    • munk-a 5y ago
      I think that's beside the point - more relevant is that people were both willing to pay a good deal to organize the games and that the games were a central and import part of roman society. You can argue - almost certainly correctly - that there was a significant portion of society that found the game distasteful, but you can't argue that there was still an even larger slice of the population that considered them so important that they built the coliseum to host them.
  • forgetfulness 5y ago
    Gladiators were almost all of them slaves, but they were also entertainers who were expensive to train and keep, and often individually famous, much like WWE wrestlers. So it was rare that they would be made to fight to the death. Now, slaughtering prisoners in the arena happened just like you are imagining.
    • camjohnson26 5y ago
      They had a 1/5 chance of dying in every battle and an average age at death of around 25? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator