Reply #71: I really wonder how much that effect has contributed to the decline of past empires. [View All]

[Marr]

It seems that, as wealth and power accumulate into fewer and fewer hands, there is less and less trust in the system, and less acceptance of it as a legitimate force. Most empires seem to simply decline into obscurity, and I wonder if this isn't the usual cause. God knows it wouldn't make it into the history books, if it were so.