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Roman Empire GDP per Capita Map Shows That Romans Poorer Than Countries Today (brilliantmaps.com)
5 points by mathattack 13 days ago
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db48x 13 days ago
Correct, they had so very few capital improvements back then. They leveraged the ones they had quite well, but they were just dirt poor. You yourself have luxuries that even the most fabulously wealthy Senator or Emperor would envy.
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kderbyma 13 days ago
Ah...get a good whiff that....woohee...good ole GDP. Useful for everything. Its like the duct tape of economic theory
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hulitu 13 days ago
They were so poor that they didn't have any airports.
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