What Is the Role of the New Wealth in the Roman System?

Roxanne Jones: How much did the roman system change? Because all of a sudden it went from, well, at least the portrayals of it make it sound like more spartan, more old values. Ino cato the elder, looking at the nice figs and saying, carthage must be destroyed. I think that far from degrading the morality of the thing, it does degrade the socio economic system," she says. "It creates sky rocketing economic inequality"