Like a dozen times in Roman history, some Consul is hailed as the greatest leader of all time because he breaks up the big slave owning plantations and redistributes the land to the poor (that is, the poor citizenry, not the slaves or immigrants). None of them could figure out how to stop the big plantations from inevitably buying up and outcompeting the smallholders, though.
also, roman republic tearing itself apart repeatedly because the elites simply refused to give any concessions to the poor.
no, no lesson here.
(not that the republic was good...)
Like a dozen times in Roman history, some Consul is hailed as the greatest leader of all time because he breaks up the big slave owning plantations and redistributes the land to the poor (that is, the poor citizenry, not the slaves or immigrants). None of them could figure out how to stop the big plantations from inevitably buying up and outcompeting the smallholders, though.