The parasites desire to return our lives to 19th century industrial revolution living standards where entire families lived in open communal basement spaces with only a broom closets worth of space to live in then immediately say your life is still better than the 19th century because at least you have hot chips, T.V., and a smartphone to doomscroll on.
They’d bring back imperial Roman era living standards for the working class if they could get away with it
I don’t know. Giving people bread and circuses for free sounds like communism.
From Parenti’s Rome book
It generally fucking sucked to be a prole in Rome. The bread and circuses were quite literally there to keep them from rioting over their squalid conditions
Oh! I never meant to imply that the proles had it good in ancient Rome. I was just predicting how reactionaries would take the idea of giving the proles something for free, even just a few crumbs of bread to keep them from revolting.
Chippies and netflix