Submitted by AlxIp t3_xx9y4v in nottheonion
Negative-Emotion-795 t1_irbrmao wrote
Hey, it worked for Diocletian, amirite?
>The Edict (AD 301) was criticized by Lactantius . . . who blamed the emperors for the inflation and told of fighting and bloodshed that erupted from price tampering. By the end of Diocletian's reign in 305, the Edict was for all practical purposes ignored. The Roman economy as a whole was not substantively stabilized until Constantine's coinage reforms in the 310s.
Guys?
Forever_Ambergris t1_irc65o2 wrote
Jesus, people have been doing this for millennia?
Negative-Emotion-795 t1_ircbsal wrote
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." --Karl Marx
Tully-road t1_ire2v3n wrote
Good quote. Not a Marxist but yeah.
Cormacolinde t1_ird684v wrote
I was thinking of exactly this example!
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