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|    Oh so rich & successful JTEM to All    |
|    Re: '[The wealthy of the Roman Republic]    |
|    08 Nov 20 13:09:16    |
      From: jtem01@gmail.com              What you got wrong, or at least didn't grasp, is that there       was a market for the grain produced on the farms. The       food was heavily subsidized -- the grain dole, "Bread &       Circus" -- so the wealth of the individual was driven by       the poverty of the masses.              THE MORE POOR PEOPLE, ON THE GRAIN DOLE, THE       MORE SUBSIDIZED GRAIN WAS IN DEMAND!              Room was a society dying of cancer. While every jackass       on the planet explores the so called "Mystery" of why it       fell, the actual mystery is why and HOW it succeeded for       as long as it did!                                          -- --              https://jtem.tumblr.com/post/634194061517045760              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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