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Originally Posted by kingkilburn
Rome seemed to do well enough with dictators. Near absolute power for ten years and then you can never rule again. The problems didn't start until the stupid voters made a dictator an emperor and the title was passed down through heredity.
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Yeah but you are also forgetting this worked because:
1) subjected ppl to their rule
2) only a small pecentage of people under roman hegemony were actually citizens
3) kept their "subjects" happy by raping and pillaging the neighbors who were not "Romans", and then outsourcing their problems to those non Romans
4) essentially said you don't like it then well I have legions
And this is completely overlooking the fact that there were still a shit load of problems and a vast majority of the population were not happy and frequently revolted when the food ran dry
Pretty much consuls would steal from the rest of the known world and pay ppl a minimum to keep the sheeple happy. Once they were done with this they would "retire" to the senate where they would sit pretty and continue to make an inordinate amount of money off the sweat of other ppls brows, for the rest of their lives.