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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.
The US is, what, 40% farmland and another 13% wilderness. Add to that the 13th amendment and the most imprisoned populace per capita?
The US is absolutely an agrarian slave economy.
How big part of the economy is farming and how big of a portion of the population does it employ?
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It's three failing historical empires in a trenchcoat. It's wild how you can vaguely gesture to almost any terrible moment in history and find strong parallels to modern problems in the US and the world.
"yes, we're here to, uh... See a movie"
"Psst, ask if they have any slaves"
"Shut up, Rome! You're gonna get us busted! Ask if they have any tea!"