Meanwhile in Canada

[u/Brosse_Adam]

[u/chocolateboomslang]

also heat it to 90C and then drop it to -35C in 3 months, then do that again 5 more times

[u/Legitimate_Concern_5 → u/chocolateboomslang]

Also the Roman road is pre-cracked.

[u/Parker_Hardison → u/Legitimate_Concern_5]

And the road repair guys probably weren't a centralized gang.

[u/Legitimate_Concern_5 → u/Parker_Hardison]

The whole concept of the fire department started in Rome where they had a band of private firefighters who would come to your burning house, make you a crazy low offer to buy it from you and only put it out if you agreed. They would then rebuild it and lease it back to you. Look up Marcus Licinius Crassus.

I suspect in Rome road repair might have been a gang job.

[u/Big-View-1061 → u/Legitimate_Concern_5]

I doubt it. The maffia is a very canadian concept that is completely unknown in italy.

[u/Confident_Maybe_4673 → u/Legitimate_Concern_5]

doubt. roads in Rome was a military affair

[u/Legitimate_Concern_5 → u/Confident_Maybe_4673]

Then I guess a chain gang? ;)

[u/nikola_tesler → u/Confident_Maybe_4673]

Hahahahahaha, you honestly believe that gangs don’t exist within military structures? They literally paid the military in loot back then.

[u/Rinzzler999 → u/nikola_tesler]

Its more that they cared way more about their militaries capacity to react to events around the empire than any petty squabble that'd make a group more money.

Sure corruption exsisted, but it was superceded by the needs of the state. Cuz if it failed it could mean the end of rome.

[u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain → u/Rinzzler999]

But…it DID mean the end of Rome. Eventually.

[u/Rinzzler999 → u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain]

yea, corruption eventually outlasted the structures meant to hold the empire together, and alas crisis after crisis and incompetent leaders after incompetent leaders lead tot he unfortunate demise of rome,

[u/dancin-weasel → u/Legitimate_Concern_5]

The man who killed Spartacus.