Bread and Circuses by James Quinn “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.” Roman Poet Juvenal – 77 AD British historian Andrew J. Toynbee convincingly argues that the Roman Empire had a rotten economic system from its inception and its instituti