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by peoplefromibiza 917 days ago
Of course some Neapolitan came and downvoted the comment.

I'm Italian BTW, the problem is not the people living in Scampia, the problem is the fact that a place like Scampia exists and everybody there thinks it's normal.

The Romans would have never allowed something like that. Their slaves had better lives than that.

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> The Romans would have never allowed something like that. Their slaves had better lives than that.

That’s either sarcasm or you certainly know almost absolutely nothing about how the Romans treated their slaves. You could try looking up the conditions of slaves working in mines or agricultural estates or some of the laws related to slavery they had… (also sexual exploitation was on a whole other level which is hard to even grasp for us)

> Scampia

I’m sure it’s much nicer that some of the slums in Ancient Rome, the city itself (Pompeii and Herculaneum were relatively well off cities at the time in probably one the richest regions in the world (Campania))

> you certainly know almost absolutely nothing about how the Romans treated their slaves

You seem to be one that makes a lot of assumptions.

> I’m sure it’s much nicer that some of the slums in Ancient Rome

That's the point. It is not.

> Pompeii and Herculaneum were relatively well off cities

Yeah, Egypt was too, Middle East was too, Persia (Iran) too.

Look at them now.