What’s really hilarious is the fact elite Romans despised the primitive capitalists amongst their midst, it’s almost like Roman society was defined by landed nobles who relied on slave labor to generate accumulation for the sake of status and luxury and not capital gains through the exploitation of a working class for the sake of reinvestment in productive assets

The debased money grubber was an archetype in Roman literature, and yet these dipshits still think Roman society was defined by capitalism lmao