Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "1. Roman Britain - The Work of Giants Crumbled" video.

today is not yesterday I say the odds of that are almost zero to nil on the US but then the Roman Empire was very different. As for slavery, we can't compare Empires of the past to countries of today on moral standards because it was a different world back then in that they saw things differently but I do have to wonder if Romans didn't use slaves, they likely would have been a lot more inventive because of the need to be, there have been many stories during Roman times that inventions have been scraped because it makes things more efficient in taking jobs away from slaves and that for some in powers worried them.
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History has a way of repeating it's self so it's no surprise really.
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@diazinth That's a western problem where we tend to fear change and in many cases, end up fighting it, it's always a losing battle because change happens no matter what, I do feel some Asian countries like Japan does better on that one but we in the west are slowly changing and catching up on that with our adoption of tech and for me, that really started in the 90's where tech was becoming more mainstream for most, there is still that fear of change from many but it's progress nonetheless.
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@blahblahblahblah2837 They had the capabilities of doing it but for some reason held themselves back, I even remember where it was said that if it wasn't for slavery in Rome, they had a lot of the core ingredients to start the industrial revolution and it makes me wonder how different the world could be if they did that as I suspect we might be a lot more advanced now, but to be fair to the Romans, this was a world where in the world, change was very slow and almost statics, so they likely feared change even more than we do today or might not have seen a need for change if things worked. Today we for the most part know better, change happens, it's hard to stop and if done right, change can be better for us all. I always wonder because at the time and many see Rome as a big source of their wealth and to a degree that is right but I also feel if they didn't have that, they likely would have created a lot more wealth by the need to change, it's like today, if we had mostly free labour, would a lot of the things we invent have happened that makes things more efficient? Probably not.
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