Is this implying that putting down a slave rebellion is good and cool?
It’s an achievement, at the least. I don’t think raising armies with one’s own money has a strong positive moral component either, but it’s a much bigger thing to have to one’s name than shitposting on social media.
Idk man, musk sucks and all, but I don’t know if that’s an adequate excuse to stroke the dick of other disgustingly wealthy individuals who probably did just as much damage, or potentially more, than him. Being from antiquity, who knows what this fucker really got up to? History is written by the victor, and maybe it’d be better to just acknowledge that no one should have this kind of power as a single individual, than to pretend musk only sucks because he’s not based enough to have his own personal army.
More about Musk’s sheer patheticness and lack of actual accomplishments, but otherwise I don’t disagree. Crassus was not a good man, even by the judgement of his contemporary aristocrats. You may be interested to learn that he died (according to legend, at least) by having molten gold poured down his throat as repudiation of his infamous greed
I mean, that’s cool and all, but the meme you posted implies Crassus is the Chad to Elon’s virgin. The implication there being some should aspire to be like Crassus if they are super wealthy. My point here is that humans are generally fucking stupid and impressionable, and most of them just see the surface level image and move on. Memes like this could easily contribute to a developing mind deciding that the Roman oligarchy was super cool and based, introducing them to a gradual slide into fascism… You know, considering how Rome invented the word. I guess what I’m saying is posting something like this just feels irresponsible.
Mm. I’ll consider deleting it here, leaving it just up on RoughRomanMemes, where some knowledge of Crassus’s shittiness can be expected.
It’s also a joke, so, like, maybe don’t over think it? 🤷🏻♂️
By this logic you’re okay with someone posting gore under the pretense of it being a joke. I get that what I’m talking about isn’t the world’s biggest problem, but it shouldn’t be ignored either.
Explanation: Marcus Licinnius Crassus was one of the richest men of the Late Roman Republic, and an extremely influential politician. He was a ruthless businessman, but at the least, he had guts and smarts. One of his most famous - and successful - schemes was to create the city of Rome’s first firefighting force - a private firefighting force, which he would use to buy houses on fire at fire-sale (dohohoho) prices, and THEN put them out.
If the owner refused to sell? Well, Crassus would wait. Then offer less money. And less. And less. Until the house was burned down, as it would have without his intervention.
Immensely shitty on a human level, but brilliant business sense. Very active fellow.
