
Evil Empires
Worldcasting Podcast
I'm Evil, I'll Kill All the Gauls
It's not just going to be everybody being evil because it's so much fun. They're getting a reward for doing what they're doing. There is incentivizations for this behavior. And we keep coming back to Rome because it is just the prototypical empire in the Western mind. When Julius Caesar went out and conquered all of Gaul, it wasn't because he was sitting there going like, I'm evil. He was thinking, Oh, geez, I owe a lot of people a lot of money."
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