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justinian

 Honoré de Balzac was correct in pointing out (all the way back in the 1800s) how the emerging bourgeoisie are both greedier and more predacious to ordinary people than the old royal aristocracy.
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Anonymous 5w

For sure, the dude who had these made was so humble and down to earth.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

We are going deeper into debt to China (our main rival) to pay for more tax cuts. The tech oligarchs today are so far beyond the kings and pharaohs of old.

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 5w

Caligula declared himself a living god to a society that very much still worshipped and believed in gods. Nero executed his own mother for political power. Qui Shing Huanh made 700k conscripted laborers make him a terracotta army over a decade, literally enslaving people for a vanity project.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

Alexander the great tried to violently conquer the known world to be greater than his father, and to be seen like Achilles

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

Notice how lots of them like Alexander actually led battles on the field. Can you imagine a CEO putting his own nuts on the line for Israel today instead of sending other people to die?

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 5w

So if the CEO’s did physical violence that put them at risk, its ok?

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