The Roman Empire... collected taxes from up to 100 million subjects. This... financed... 250,000 - 500,000… — Yuval Noah Harari
The Roman Empire... collected taxes from up to 100 million subjects. This... financed... 250,000 - 500,000 soldiers, a road network still in use.., and theatres and amphitheatres that host spectacles to this day.
Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
More from this book
[P]erhaps happiness is synchronising... personal delusions.. with... prevailing collective delusions.
We have... increased food production, built cities, established empires and created... trade networks. But did we decrease... suffering..? ...[M]assive increases in human power did not necessarily improve the well-being of individual Sapiens, and usually caused immense misery to other animals.
[C]ontradictions are culture’s engines, responsible for... creativity and dynamism... Just as... clashing musical notes... force... music forward.., discord in... thoughts, ideas and values compel us to think, reevaluate and criticise. Consistency is the playground of dull minds.
