The miserable living conditions of the slaves and the lower class citizens is perfectly summed up in this sentence said by Nero the night Emperor Claudius was poisoned: "My sincerest apologies for arriving late, father. One of the slaves who carried my litter broke his ankle. Can you believe it?! Of course, I gave him a beating and then asked Otho to lend me one of his slaves..."
@leftism is a disease its not fear of the over class that keeps the proletariat in line, it's the fear of the underclass... If we the 90% band against the 10% we would live well.
@@TheMattvf16 that's just a small minority extorting the customers for their own profits. It's literally just artificially inflating prices for no reason.
Language is funny when you think about it The German word for emperor, Kaiser, can be directly traced to Julius Caesar, since the C always makes a K sound in Latin. This video thought me that when the brits call someone a pleb it’s not just an insult, but it’s derived from the plebeians in Roman society, such as the name Patricia, which was basically the nobles of rome
names are pretty much all from rome/greece in the west alexander/alexandra obviously alexandros the great philip obviously philippos of macedon julius/julia coming from julius caesar alexas coming from alexios justin coming from justinian marcus coming from... id guess marcus aurelius lucian coming from lucius things like george either came from gorgippos or germanic guys named george most common names today can be traced back to historic figures
@@randomguy6152 most common names can be traced back to common Roman names (I don't know enough about Greek names) Marcus was an extremely common name, like Lucius, and Marius Julius and Julia are technically adjectives, iulius-a-um and it comes from the gens iulia (I don't know how it came to be written with a J, it was written with a i), like many other names did Rome had around 300k "surnames" (names of the gens) that have either become names or they remained surnamed (Italy's got the most amount of surnames than any other nation) The Romans also used other names, because 2 weren't enough (even 5 was common, because that's what anyone would want to be called. "Hello, is Marcus Aurelius Caius Lucretianius Africanus here?") Such other names also became names commonly used Of course important figures made certain names more common, but only after Rome fell, as they were obsessed with their family names (they all had a set of names they used) Even the plebs had both gens and first name
Despite the great wealth gap between citizens, Rome wasn't a caste system, so the less fortunate, at least, had the opportunity to climb to the top of the social ladder. For example, Emperor Vespasian was born into a humble family who lived in a country house, which he visited even during the last days of his reign. Also, Maximinus Thrax was a descendant of slaves and barbarians.
Similarly the Hindu system was not a caste system, but a profession based order! Unfortunately, invaders purposely manipulated facts and portrayed India as an backward society. Luckily the Internet Era is bringing up facts, and exposing the British and Portuguese colonial intentions.
@@Alexander-cg1ey yeah. You gotta have luck. And good genetics. And oftentimes good connections. And a supportive family definitely helps. And good people around you in general are helpful.
@@Aisndianeidnawbedja It's pretty rough out there, especially lately. I've got a couple things going in my favor as far as not being a minority in most senses, some good family that's willing to help me, and a gameplan that'll hopefully pay off. But of course the current political instability is bad for everyone.
@@Aisndianeidnawbedja Really only works when everyone striking are demanding the same thing. If 100 different group strike and all give different demands then the upper management won't know what the heck to do.
They've got enough money to sustain themselves for the next few years, can't say the same for us. You try going on a strike ur getting the short end of the stick
@leftism is a disease...But strikes have almost always worked. Can you give me an example in recent history where a strike actually hurt the people that were striking? I really don't know what you're on about.
They do that and they'll all eventually be replaced by cheap foreign labor there's always another willing to do the work for half the pay downside of a competitive market.
@@christophermarkee5445 yeah they do that by allowing illegals in. Imagine if we didn’t like the price of our goods and services and could fire Chevrolet management til they offer us the car for the price we like? Doesn’t matter soon nobody will have a job, with AI. They call that “progression”! Maybe for those in power? I call it extinction.
Your not pronouncing pleb, plebeian or plebs right. It’s not pleeb it’s pleb no double e just singular. If you don’t believe me please use translate and select Latin and listen to how it’s said. Other than that I love your videos😊
It took over 2000 years but people on power finally found that if you crush the soul of the people. They stop going on big enough strikes to actually affect you. :/
When people talk about how amazing life was in Ancient Rome, they’re thinking of how it was for rich people in urban centers. The average Roman citizen didn’t have it much better than a medieval peasant
Maybe we the workers need to stop going into work tomorrow until the government gets the idea we run things and to make it easier for us to get to work and home and cheaper to buy our groceries so we can keep on working
A strike works when two conditions are met : -it is general, meaning that the service won't be done at all -you use it sparingly, meaning that people won't be able to adapt and be used living without said service. If being French taught me anything, striking works on dependancy to the thing you stop doing.
I think you should note that the plebeians went on strike during campaigns. Entire armies just not fighting. Since Rome was so militaristic to show yourself as a good Consul meant you had to win wars.
That is why striking today is so important. And it's not "look at those loosers don't want to work" but have you considered they don't want to work all day long just to be unable to pay their expenses?
Small correction: while, yes, the Plebians were the lower of the 2 main classes of Roman society, the Plebians were not at all a single group of the impoverished. For example, the "equitae" were (the most important/richest plebs), in practical terms, basically as important as Patricians. Despite being plebs, they were certainly nothing like the urban poor, the "proletariat." Basically, it would be like labeling doctors and homeless people in the same social class because they're not the top 0.001%.
Strikes are when the "high-class" people realize they need "low-class" people. "What about the rich people who have companies", you may ask? Those "high-class" people's companies require "low-class" workers. The company dont work without workers.
The terminology's overall wrong though. It wasn't about taxes, government didn't "resign" (there were no "governments"), they weren't strikes, just riots, and they did not keep the city running (slaves did). There are many strong similarities with the present, just not those ones.
After the first recession, i forget the name but someone went up to yhe plebians and convinced them to come down by comparing society to a stomach and saying thatevery part of the stomach is needed in order for it to function, it was an amusing story to learn about
I love this channel, but "shorts" are NOT made for this type of channel. They just end up feeling lacking. Can't fit enough vital information to understand subjects into such short a period of time
It is amazing how much the bottom of the totem pole getting pulled out can do so to all minimum wage workers if you want better pay just get literally everyone that gets payed the same to just stop working until they start paying
Well they weren't a government that derived power fromrepresentation. It was feudalism, enough violence and dogma was imprinted for the peasantry to stay complicit. Even then it happened with the Jokyo uprising of 1686.
@@angelhurtado55 Its the same to why Americans don't do it. They are used to it, you'd be surprised by what a society deems acceptable because its the order of things.
So you're saying a general strike amongst the workers forces those in power to give us more rights and support? Huh... if only we lived in a world where most people work for a living... waiiitt
How are they both at the bottom and just above the slaves that makes it sound like the slaves were at the bottom but you just told me they were the bottom what’s going on here
The West has never had a strict class structure. What people mean when they say "strict class structure" is something like the Indian caste system which would leave a genetic structure noticeable for many generations.
If u remember the first time strike work mostly because Rome were in war against Norden and celtic tribe and the plebian contributed a lot as Roman soldier so the senat give them some political power (not enough to pressure the senat but enough to calm down the striker)
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The miserable living conditions of the slaves and the lower class citizens is perfectly summed up in this sentence said by Nero the night Emperor Claudius was poisoned:
"My sincerest apologies for arriving late, father. One of the slaves who carried my litter broke his ankle. Can you believe it?! Of course, I gave him a beating and then asked Otho to lend me one of his slaves..."
Bruh
Wtf even is this
@@mongu6103 wtf even is this
@@mongu6103 what even is this
@@saveurproblems5295 wtf even is this?
Definitely need to teach our own Congress this lesson
@leftism is a disease don't you mean us?
@leftism is a disease anarcho capitalism is business owned government
Maybe try joining a union.
@leftism is a disease its not fear of the over class that keeps the proletariat in line, it's the fear of the underclass...
If we the 90% band against the 10% we would live well.
@@TheMattvf16 that's just a small minority extorting the customers for their own profits. It's literally just artificially inflating prices for no reason.
Language is funny when you think about it
The German word for emperor, Kaiser, can be directly traced to Julius Caesar, since the C always makes a K sound in Latin. This video thought me that when the brits call someone a pleb it’s not just an insult, but it’s derived from the plebeians in Roman society, such as the name Patricia, which was basically the nobles of rome
names are pretty much all from rome/greece in the west
alexander/alexandra obviously alexandros the great
philip obviously philippos of macedon
julius/julia coming from julius caesar
alexas coming from alexios
justin coming from justinian
marcus coming from... id guess marcus aurelius
lucian coming from lucius
things like george either came from gorgippos or germanic guys named george
most common names today can be traced back to historic figures
@@randomguy6152 most common names can be traced back to common Roman names (I don't know enough about Greek names)
Marcus was an extremely common name, like Lucius, and Marius
Julius and Julia are technically adjectives, iulius-a-um and it comes from the gens iulia (I don't know how it came to be written with a J, it was written with a i), like many other names did
Rome had around 300k "surnames" (names of the gens) that have either become names or they remained surnamed (Italy's got the most amount of surnames than any other nation)
The Romans also used other names, because 2 weren't enough (even 5 was common, because that's what anyone would want to be called. "Hello, is Marcus Aurelius Caius Lucretianius Africanus here?")
Such other names also became names commonly used
Of course important figures made certain names more common, but only after Rome fell, as they were obsessed with their family names (they all had a set of names they used)
Even the plebs had both gens and first name
Patricia Patriarchy
Despite the great wealth gap between citizens, Rome wasn't a caste system, so the less fortunate, at least, had the opportunity to climb to the top of the social ladder. For example, Emperor Vespasian was born into a humble family who lived in a country house, which he visited even during the last days of his reign. Also, Maximinus Thrax was a descendant of slaves and barbarians.
Similarly the Hindu system was not a caste system, but a profession based order! Unfortunately, invaders purposely manipulated facts and portrayed India as an backward society.
Luckily the Internet Era is bringing up facts, and exposing the British and Portuguese colonial intentions.
😂
A lot like America today. You may be born poor, and you'll probably die poor, but maybe you can be a professional athlete or something
@@Alexander-cg1ey yeah. You gotta have luck. And good genetics. And oftentimes good connections. And a supportive family definitely helps. And good people around you in general are helpful.
@@Aisndianeidnawbedja It's pretty rough out there, especially lately. I've got a couple things going in my favor as far as not being a minority in most senses, some good family that's willing to help me, and a gameplan that'll hopefully pay off. But of course the current political instability is bad for everyone.
Hey guys, general strikes work.
They did back then, and they still do today.
@@Aisndianeidnawbedja Really only works when everyone striking are demanding the same thing. If 100 different group strike and all give different demands then the upper management won't know what the heck to do.
@@razortheonethelight7303 yep. The people gotta unite.
@@razortheonethelight7303 upper management rarely knows what to do
When u realise you're the pleab 😅
Surprising how similar is to that today. The rich people depend on the working class. We have the power to crush them by simply not doing anything
They've got enough money to sustain themselves for the next few years, can't say the same for us. You try going on a strike ur getting the short end of the stick
Then don’t do anything and see what happens
@leftism is a disease...But strikes have almost always worked. Can you give me an example in recent history where a strike actually hurt the people that were striking?
I really don't know what you're on about.
@@georgemurdock7670 strikes still occur in the US, Amazon has been dealing with several for the past few years and they won't stop
@leftism is a disease we're already barely getting paid dude, that's the point.
Striking is the responsibility of every individual. You should constantly be seeking an improvement to your own situation
Same today. People work hard long hours for nothing!
Wow great work my dude keep it up 👍 ❤️
A v1nce Stan not being toxic? That's rare. (No offense to you)
IN AMERICA WE NEED TO HAVE A DAY WHERE EVERYONE MAKING BELOW $20 an hour does not go to work and lets see what society looks like without us.
Or a week
That'd be nice, but I think it should be everyone below $40 an hour. Plumbers should strike too, that'd show em.
@@The1astGuardian or until living conditions of the working class improve
They do that and they'll all eventually be replaced by cheap foreign labor there's always another willing to do the work for half the pay downside of a competitive market.
@@christophermarkee5445 yeah they do that by allowing illegals in. Imagine if we didn’t like the price of our goods and services and could fire Chevrolet management til they offer us the car for the price we like? Doesn’t matter soon nobody will have a job, with AI. They call that “progression”! Maybe for those in power? I call it extinction.
we have nothing to lose but our chains
Never underestimate the power of the underling.
Always wondered where the word pleb came from👍
Your not pronouncing pleb, plebeian or plebs right. It’s not pleeb it’s pleb no double e just singular. If you don’t believe me please use translate and select Latin and listen to how it’s said.
Other than that I love your videos😊
Nothing changes positively for the working class without strikes or revolts
Workers of the world Unite!!
Sounds familiar 🤔
It took over 2000 years but people on power finally found that if you crush the soul of the people. They stop going on big enough strikes to actually affect you. :/
When people talk about how amazing life was in Ancient Rome, they’re thinking of how it was for rich people in urban centers. The average Roman citizen didn’t have it much better than a medieval peasant
A day without a Mexican - SPQR edition.
The highers seem to forget they are outnumbered.
You seem to forget they hire security guards with weapons and training
Maybe we the workers need to stop going into work tomorrow until the government gets the idea we run things and to make it easier for us to get to work and home and cheaper to buy our groceries so we can keep on working
Then they decide oh they wanna not work okay we'll automate everything
@@reptiles3244 who do you think automates things? It's the workers who design, manufacture, program and repair the robots
The power of the people; both scary and awesome
Governing themselves is a major stretch, historically inaccurate
We all need to remember that in modern times.
A strike works when two conditions are met :
-it is general, meaning that the service won't be done at all
-you use it sparingly, meaning that people won't be able to adapt and be used living without said service.
If being French taught me anything, striking works on dependancy to the thing you stop doing.
This lesson never seems to stick.
The "paid high taxes" really infuriated me
It's a circle.
The ruling classes often forget that somebody has to do the work.
The plebes were not at the bottom the pegrini were the plebes were allowed to vote at least.
I think you should note that the plebeians went on strike during campaigns. Entire armies just not fighting. Since Rome was so militaristic to show yourself as a good Consul meant you had to win wars.
Wow good content love the videos
Lessons will be repeated until the lesson is learned.
Second, keep up the great content
That is why striking today is so important. And it's not "look at those loosers don't want to work" but have you considered they don't want to work all day long just to be unable to pay their expenses?
Goes to show even if your at the top of the pyramid you still need your base foundation at the bottom to keep the whole operation together.
RIP Tiberius and Caius Graccus, best tribuna of the plebians to ever live. Their ideas for the people were too revolutionary for their time.
Small correction: while, yes, the Plebians were the lower of the 2 main classes of Roman society, the Plebians were not at all a single group of the impoverished. For example, the "equitae" were (the most important/richest plebs), in practical terms, basically as important as Patricians. Despite being plebs, they were certainly nothing like the urban poor, the "proletariat." Basically, it would be like labeling doctors and homeless people in the same social class because they're not the top 0.001%.
Infographics be teaching us about class struggle and the gains possible and how power is nothing more than bodies and their capacity for violence
It always baffled me that Rome was so admired through history. Rome was a truly messed up place.
It’s funny to me how people don’t realize who really has control. The people are the majority, rise up.
This is exactly what we need to do here in the United States to really shock the billionaires and make them realize what exactly holds them up.
Billionaires know, that's why we all have a clause in our contract that makes it against the law for us to participate in or incite a strike
@@chaoticdetectivepeach no contract for any company has such a clause as that is illegal
@@chaoticdetectivepeach next time you try spreading false information at least know the laws of the country
strikes work. history tells us this. don't let them tell you otherwise.
Mans forgot about slaves as the bottom wrung
If only the current plebs understood their power - what a marvellous world we would have?!
Workers, United! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
It's amazing how even our ancient ancestors knew communism was based
And they still prevent them again. Nothing has changed.
Id say it is about time we do this in the USA to show the rich few how powerless they are
If only the workers today knew the power rhey have in their hands to change the world for them.
Take note guys. They depend on us
Strikes are when the "high-class" people realize they need "low-class" people.
"What about the rich people who have companies", you may ask? Those "high-class" people's companies require "low-class" workers. The company dont work without workers.
Might not work in these times because there's a lot of people who can replace them
They held the true power
The terminology's overall wrong though. It wasn't about taxes, government didn't "resign" (there were no "governments"), they weren't strikes, just riots, and they did not keep the city running (slaves did).
There are many strong similarities with the present, just not those ones.
Interesting history!
"The Plebians were at the bottom... just above the slaves"
So the slaves were at the bottom.
Americans would just rather get a Netflix subscription
Thanks for this info, quite interesting. Didnt know i wanted to know this
The struggle of orders
After the first recession, i forget the name but someone went up to yhe plebians and convinced them to come down by comparing society to a stomach and saying thatevery part of the stomach is needed in order for it to function, it was an amusing story to learn about
I love this channel, but "shorts" are NOT made for this type of channel. They just end up feeling lacking. Can't fit enough vital information to understand subjects into such short a period of time
We can learn something from their example!
All I hear is “Plebs are needed”
The more you know 🌠
Anyone remember this from tv like 30 years ago?
i wanna have this but for construction people
We are forever free from economic slavery
Power to the people
Same as today!
It is amazing how much the bottom of the totem pole getting pulled out can do so to all minimum wage workers if you want better pay just get literally everyone that gets payed the same to just stop working until they start paying
if japan were smart enough to learn from rome
Well they weren't a government that derived power fromrepresentation. It was feudalism, enough violence and dogma was imprinted for the peasantry to stay complicit. Even then it happened with the Jokyo uprising of 1686.
@@crylec6534 fastforward to TODAY! and they rather die working unpaud overtime, than fighting for their rights
@@angelhurtado55 Its the same to why Americans don't do it. They are used to it, you'd be surprised by what a society deems acceptable because its the order of things.
@@crylec6534 americans don't strike anymore, they quit
@@angelhurtado55 Don't know you live in the US or not, but that attitude has shifted.
To bad our working class doesn't have that kinda unity.
>the plebeians were at the bottom... just above the slaves.
So the slaves were at the bottom.
Huh, wonder if we should remind the current “leaders” of this
So you're saying a general strike amongst the workers forces those in power to give us more rights and support? Huh... if only we lived in a world where most people work for a living... waiiitt
It can happen again 🤠
How are they both at the bottom and just above the slaves that makes it sound like the slaves were at the bottom but you just told me they were the bottom what’s going on here
Slaves? Or workers? They aren't gonna get a union when the alternative is a blade.
The West has never had a strict class structure. What people mean when they say "strict class structure" is something like the Indian caste system which would leave a genetic structure noticeable for many generations.
Pleb paying high taxes? Yeah if they were citizens, on medieval rome did everyone pay taxes cause everyone was a citizen.
pre-requisite of the mafia
Indians: so...were not alone?
Based plebian strikers
Frickin plebes
Comrade Populares
Nothing has changed.
That moment when ancient people were smarter than today
Gladiator union?
Cheese, it's great to know that after 2 millennia the society has stayed approximately the same
Dang...
Is this where gamers calling people plebs came from
And the right to govern themselves has again been taken away, Eh?
If u remember the first time strike work mostly because Rome were in war against Norden and celtic tribe and the plebian contributed a lot as Roman soldier so the senat give them some political power (not enough to pressure the senat but enough to calm down the striker)
Libertarians ain't gonna like this one
If only
Hunger
Everyone: talking about history
Me, a black male: tf? Why are the slaves black?? Are they tryna say something??
Sounds like Gen Z would claim to have created this 🙄
How? Legitimately how did you conclude that?
@@crylec6534 my point exactly…
@@Julesssdubs No I am referring to you. How did you arrive at that statement?
It’s time to go on strike again!!!
Hi