1/ short answer: yes https://twitter.com/bdunbar/status/1030485661298683905 …
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2/ longer answer: technologically, it was hard / impossible to sock away 20 years of food...so what you do is to retreat from the city to your villa, and build a machine that GENERATES food This means: * fields * animals * orchards * vineyards and most importantly: farm hands
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3/ As the empire fell, population fell, trade dwindled, currency fell out of use / the velocity of money fell. The rural villa-owner with 20 or 50 men (and their families, of course) formed a schelling point: things coalesce towards that.
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4/ ...but with minimal currency in circulation, how do you pay them? Answer: let them farm some of your land for themselves. ...and that's how the slowly collapsing Roman Empire step-by-step turned into the European feudal system.
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6/ related: I'm 47. I figure I've got a max of 30 years left / left on the farm. So the right move for a young prepper is to position himself as my #2. ...which brings me to a blog post I read yesterday about the Roman social technology of adoption. Good thread; forget url.
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7/ Anyone know what I'm talking about / got a link?
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