Message from @Lucienne d'Anwyl
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So reducing their value would have basically ruined the post-money roman economy
Capitalism is what drives innovation
Probably required too much power to keep things cool for long time
considering that most of what roman slaves did was agriculture
Anything else is stagnating and party tricks
and all the steam engine is good for really is pumping water
assuming you dont have high class metallurgy to make railroads and stuff
i think the slaves jobs wouldve been pretty secure even if they did mechanize it
but they didnt
Imagine if a Roman built a steam boat
can you fucking imagine steampunk rome
to build a steam boat you need paddles
or screws
Or a train
they didnt have the metallurgy for screws
much less a full train
maybe a paddle boat
What would you need screws for
What I’m pretty sure they had screw technology
screws make ships move
they didn't even have steel afaik
in modern ships
at least not in any bigger quantities
these are massive screws
youd need proper metallurgy
likewise even making a proper steam engine
would require good steel
to make the furnace
i mean hell
you wanna make a locomotive
the entire thing is solid steel
They knew that steel is sometimes made when you make iron
but they didn't understand how and when it's created
Rome invented screws actually so that'd work
theres a difference between
a small screw
in a wooden block
and a ships screw
They were wood ofc
ship screws are shaped entirely differently first of all
second of all they are massive