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Original meme maker probably had autocorrect on.

I considered that part of having a business agent on hand to make those deals and connections, but yes.

Explanation: Nikola Tesla was a prolific and wildly influential inventor of the early 20th century AD. He also was in constant dire financial straits despite not having any major expensive vices (other than inventing), because, unlike his contemporary Thomas Edison, Tesla was not adept at maneuvering business deals (and certainly not with the cutthroat ruthlessness that Edison displayed - several times at Tesla's expense).

Capitalism is better than feudalism because it rewards a wider range of intellectual ability and success than feudalism does... but that range still does not include innovation. You wanna be paid for your innovation in a capitalist system? Better have a lawyer and a business agent on hand as soon as you get out of the patent office. :/

Honestly? I'm ready to let them have a shot at it. We ain't done so hot, what's the worst that could happen?

Title Explanation: Germany has a history of naming its tanks after 'big cats'. Panther, Tiger, Leopard, etc. This here's a little cat tank.

Mark Antony was considered something of an crude boor, yet he managed to snag the incredibly intelligent, cultured, powerful, and beautiful Queen Cleopatra in what was an apparently happy marriage.

So I must assume yes, his thighs were incredible

Explanation: Romans wore tunics, which generally did not reach the knees. Flexible and breathable! This includes the Roman Legions. Trousers were denigrated as 'barbarian', though Legions in northern areas and the later Empire would begin to wear them regularly.

Julius Caesar's right-hand man, Mark Antony, was noted as wearing scandalously short tunics to show off his muscular legs. Ooh la la!

Wage labor, usually.

Despite the widespread use of slave labor in Roman society, unskilled slaves were overwhelmingly used for tasks that were either considered 'demeaning' (like domestic servants), did not require any real precision (like mill grinding and monocrop farm labor) or needed a constant application of labor (like mines). The Romans recognized that people work better when offered carrots rather than sticks - some slave who only barely cares if he lives or dies isn't going to put much effort into aligning the brick with the mortar properly unless you watch him like a hawk - which is more labor you have to put in. Manual labor for construction is not a task that requires a doctorate, but it is a task where you have to do it right the first time, or you waste everyone's labor and effort.

Construction, furthermore, is only intermittent work in most places. If you own a bunch of slaves, you don't stop paying for their food and shelter when they aren't working - if you want them to be profitable, you'll have to find other work for them to do the rest of the year. And at that point, it's probably not less profitable to just have them do that year-round instead. You could, potentially, have your slaves as a traveling construction crew, but travel is not only uncertain and expensive, but offers opportunities for unmotivated workers (like slaves) to simply... slip away, and choose to no longer be one of your workers. Even if you try to hunt them down. Even just transporting building materials from Point A to Point B includes a lot of very dangerous unsupervised time - perhaps something you'd trust a household slave with, but not one of the faceless slave numbers on your business ledger!

Funny enough, it would be more likely, if anyone was a slave on the job, that it would be potentially a few of the skilled positions. Skilled slaves were often given more trust and responsibilities precisely because they were offered more 'carrot' than 'stick' - payment, privileges, and the possibility of freedom for a decade or two of labor were on the table. Skilled slaves were thus less likely to run away - and unlike free wage laborers, especially skilled ones, wouldn't (or rather, couldn't) demand more pay at the prospect of being dragged from one of the empire to another - very handy if you're a small construction firm going from place to place, and hiring local labor for most tasks!

Interestingly enough, construction wasn't a usual avenue for applying slave labor in Ancient Rome.

That's fvcked up, man

Funny enough, the physician who examined Caesar's corpse was of the opinion that only one of the stab wounds was dire enough to be fatal, had Caesar gotten prompt treatment.

Apparently there's a symbol on the head.

I love how blatantly it juts out

Some opium too, just to take the edge off

Don't worry, they'll still vote for Trump's preferred candidates in the midterms, and then for the third term in 2028, not that the vote count will actually matter.

The poster is Chinese, and regularly writes about struggling with cultural expectations with regards to traditional Chinese familial norms. If I wrote that white American family cultural norms were fucked, as a partly-white American, would that make me racist? Not only that, but families are placed at the midpoint, not the fucked-up 'end' of the drawing.