I do not consider "fed the citizens of the city of Rome at the expense of literally committing genocide in several provinces" a good case study
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Um ... the Roman Empire literally directly fed its people for a thousand years
Grace Pritchard Burson
None of us can really conceptualise just how much the premodern state genuinely did not see it as its duty to make sure you, you specifically, do not die
