- 02 Jul 2017 23:04
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Not much if you ask me. Malthusian growth is a real PITA.
Those grain handouts sound trivial from today's perspective, but when famines are reducing the population on a regular basis, food security is a huge deal. Of course the late Republic could only afford this because it "plundered" its territory. There's far less incentive for empire-building in a traditional sense nowadays.
Cookie Monster wrote:How much this resonates with what is happening in the United States, Russia, and perhaps in the EU at some point in the future.
Not much if you ask me. Malthusian growth is a real PITA.
Those grain handouts sound trivial from today's perspective, but when famines are reducing the population on a regular basis, food security is a huge deal. Of course the late Republic could only afford this because it "plundered" its territory. There's far less incentive for empire-building in a traditional sense nowadays.