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In the discussion thread: Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped [View all]

Response to Odin2005 (Reply #16)

Sun Jun 10, 2012, 03:39 PM

kentuck (66,269 posts)

17. "Subsistence life reverted to the countryside."

But, before that, the most advanced water system in the world, the best roads, etc, sank into ruin. The upper class refused to pay to keep them up. And the debtors had no money.

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26 replies	Author	Time	Post
Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped [View all]	HiPointDem	Jun 2012	OP
Spam deleted by Morning Dew (MIR Team)	Thomas4	Jun 2012	#1
How can you define debt as slavery and then complain that creditors are asking for austerity?	dkf	Jun 2012	#2
In your view no creditor should ever suffer a loss..	girl gone mad	Jun 2012	#4
kick	kentuck	Jun 2012	#14
Yes it is slavery. That is why I am exasperated when people complain about the adverse effects.	dkf	Jun 2012	#25
When that Debt and those people who have no way to stop from paying it are the main idea....	nolabels	Jun 2012	#5
Creditors profit from the money they loan to others.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#6
In pretty simple terms, they steal most of our food and then demand that we go on crash diets.	DesertDiamond	Jun 2012	#12
Privatize gains, socialize losses.	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#18
That is why Iceland and Greece have told them to go screw themselves...	kentuck	Jun 2012	#19
And what a disaster Iceland is now.	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#20
And that is where we are headed...	kentuck	Jun 2012	#21
No no, I was being facetious about Iceland being a disaster.	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#22
Sorry.. oops!	kentuck	Jun 2012	#23
Iceland and Greece are are very different situations. Iceland chose not to backstop their banks.	OllieLotte	Jun 2012	#24
Greece is still unsettled...	kentuck	Jun 2012	#26
Some of the REAL history they refuse to teach in school	nolabels	Jun 2012	#3
This should be required reading.	kentuck	Jun 2012	#7
Neither a borrower nor a lender be	dipsydoodle	Jun 2012	#8
Spoken by an old fool (Polonius) who is like some	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#15
Bankers started out lending to kings and royals.	fasttense	Jun 2012	#9
Du rec. Nt	xchrom	Jun 2012	#10
K&R	ck4829	Jun 2012	#11
Hammarabi's laws...	kentuck	Jun 2012	#13
We are Rome in the last century of the Republic.	Odin2005	Jun 2012	#16
"Subsistence life reverted to the countryside."	kentuck	Jun 2012	#17

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