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How did the first democracy die?

1764.192 - 1785.484 PJ Vogt

There must have been Athenians who knew that if the state paid everybody to vote, paid everybody to serve on the 1,000-seat juries, paid people to go to Athenian Coachella, that eventually the need for silver would force them into a war they would lose. Thucydides actually describes how the few Athenians who knew also knew to shut up.

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