Finance & Fury Podcast

  Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition I have identified a thread through history in the emergence of demand side democratic societies. Where there is a centralized authority, there is a need for ever increasing demand of the mobs and its path towards the downfall. Rome is a good example: Centralized authority and the need for increasing demand of the mobs lead to the downfall of Rome It was a kingdom, then a democratic republic, and then a dictatorship During Sulla’s rule, there was a civil war, which made him strip Julia Caesar’s family of their influences Caesar was the High Priest of Jupiter and went into hiding to save his life Caesar joined the army and rose through the ranks, he also knew how to gain public support back in Rome Caesar was kidnapped and ransomed for 20 talents He then came back and had the pirates crucified By 60BC Caesar was elected consul however used this position to gain further power To build favour, he redistributed a lot of land to the poor and the soldiers of