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Oh no, no, no, the ruling class at the very least has to give lip service to the law otherwise they piss away their legitimacy. "Rules for thee but not for me" is a very good way to piss off everyone underneath you and sow some serious long term troubles. Worse, it is a symptom of a political...

Money has always bought power, and power brings more money. It is the name of the game and not something easily fought against, more dealt with as and when. You will get that in any economic system as that is how power and human nature work.

Civic nationalism/Imperial identity is hellishly dependent on borders. If you're letting in far too many, too quickly, then assimilation is very hard if not impossible.

If you broke it down into layman terms, it would probably make perfect sense to them. We simply have the technology for a somewhat more complicated version of bartering but the basic principles remain roughly the same. Granted, if a Roman senator of the Punic Wars took a look at things like...

If I recall, you lot weren't allowed any other form of employment. Making numerous accusations against your people frankly ludicrous and deeply unfair.

The accumulation of capital for its own sake isn't very good, but you are falling into a lefty word trap. "Capitalism", like "Nationalism" are examples of that classic Enlightenment tradition of putting names to truly ancient concepts. Capitalism is a posh word for bartering. It is no recent...