the #degeneration will stop when the actual productive people stop paying for the privileged, unproductive, lazy #bums.
'#Roman #decadence refers to the popular criticism of the #culture of the later Roman #Empire's #elites[..]in luxury, in its extreme characterized by #corrupting "#extravagance, #weakness, and #sexual #deviance", as well as "#orgies and #sensual #excesses"'