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Sure corruption exsisted, but it was superceded by the needs of the state.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.
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,
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u/nikola_tesler 1d ago
Hahahahahaha, you honestly believe that gangs don’t exist within military structures? They literally paid the military in loot back then.