/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54250378
i bet he was a btc maxi as well

>>54250378
he did ok considering what he inherited

Dynasties weren't really a thing back then. It was all about adopting a suitable heir that could be a nephew or a more distant relative. Keep in mind Ancient Romans were still wary of their pseudo-legendary monarchy and looked down on oriental autocracies as well.

>>54250378
>business and finance

>i bet he was a btc maxi as well

>>54250378
He would have needed to have had a son for that

>>54250680
History is very /biz/ related

>>54250596
This

>>54250647
This guy knows.

>>54250378
Rome specifically has a lot of parallels to modern day, most people still fail to take into account the sheer complexity of the current age compared to any other time in history. The game is being played the same way, but the rules and board have changed.
>>54250596
Okay doesn't cut it in this world
>>54250647
Ironically the best answer is saying there was no argument to be made.

>>54250378
>dynasty

The only reason why the roman empire fared so well was because there wasn't a dynasty. Dynasties are weak.

>>54250715
Okay. Fine. We can do that.
Which Roman dynasty had more emperors than the Julio-Claudians.
None. There's your answer.
Augustus was a raving success in all things and a white man.

>>54250378
when caligula built a statue of himself inside the 2nd temple you knew it was over. from that moment on the west had a death sentence.

>>54251360
The beginning of the end was Nero debasing the currency. There's the /biz/ angle.

>>54250378
He listened to his wife and picked Tiberius. All the good prospects died too. The guys that replaced his dynasty copied everything he set up almost exactly. Various dynasties perpetuated the system he established for at least 5 centuries, and loosely through the present day/100 years ago. I'm sure he would be pleased with ambitious, smart, competent men usurping control from weak fools, that's how he got his start. The month of August, the title of Prince, Tsar, and Kaiser are all named after him. If he's watching from Hades, I very much doubt he gives a single fuck.

>>54251589
italians are too muderous to pick based on merit. for all of marcus aurelius's talent he picked his worthless son instead

>>54251515
nero did nothing wrong he was the donald trump of his day and his damned memory isnt the correct one

>>54251755
I didn't say he was all bad. But he did set Rome on the path of inflation that ultimately ruined it by being the first to figure out how to do it.

>>54250724
For real men Roman History is therapy, Just notr for women trannies or fags!

>>54251636
Commodus was actually hilariously based. But certainly not competent. But guess what? He was assassinated and replaced by the severans within a year, and they restored everything Augustus setup and the empire lasted another 285 years minimum.

>>54251839
300ad is a good point to call it finished. to say nothing of "con stan ti nope le" lol forever at 70s sunshine historians gibbon did nothing wrong

>>54251921
I'd even consider the severan dynasty to be the beginning of the end. When they debased the currency to 50% silver or less that's the point of no return imo. Crisis of the third century happening on top of it was the final nail in the coffin. It's a miracle how they managed to survive much longer after that.

>>54251515
>>54251794
>>54252460
it's not like debasement doesn't come with advantages, when the excess value is used to become more powerful

>>54250378
Felicior Augusto, melior Traiano

>>54250724
Therapy is temporary, Rome is eternal.

>couldn't even hold his dynasty together for a century

>>54251921
The history from Commudus death until Maximus Thrax in ~230 is pretty insane. They only officially start the "crisis of the third century" with Thrax. Rome died long before Alaric sacked the capital.

>>54250378

>>54253412
Man it’s uncanny seeing the art deteriorate in the coinage.

>>54250378
skill issue, an idiot with enough dext shit could last at least a few more years (not the person btw)

it's a divine punishment for adding men to sex

>>54252460
I saw a good pol schizo post the other day about Elagabalus. Basically he made Elagabal, aka Allah Ja'Baal into the head god of the pantheon and he got himself circumcised and stopped eating pork. The severans were all Carthaginian semites I believe and Baal was their patron god that they sacrificed babies to and right around the time of him taking power the whole thing starts to go to shit.

>>54254031
>patch notes v192dc
>it will now be multiplayer
>now several players can join the same party
>there will be crossplay with men

>>54254095
The best thing that happened to the game was when they added the spaniards, their passive of capturing another player from another server and having sex without even sending a request is OP

>>54251360
The end was the grachii brothers using populism to ruin long established precedents, and the greed of the senate of course

>>54254436
The senate reflects the people. Look at how many Americans come from a broken and or godless family and you will start to realize the problem

Jesus is king vote for Kanye west

>>54254436

>>54250378
Caesar sisters not like this

>>54254460
Not when the senate becomes immeasurably wealthy and completely outside of what the average citizen endures