So we have “Rome’s top 1% controlled 16 percent of the wealth, compared to modern America where the top 1% controls 40 percent of the wealth.” Maybe and that’s subject to scrutiny by peer review. So they controlled less of the wealth? What about the soils of war? The slaves? Were the slaves monitized in this study? Sure, maybe they only controlled 16 percent of the wealth but ancient Rome’s 1 percent owned your life — literally.