It is estimated that during the Roman Empire 20% to 30% of Italy's population were slaves. For the empire as a whole that share was between 10% and 15%.
In these times, even modest Roman households might expect to own two or three slaves.
@TodePond “I live on Earth at the present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe.”
— #BuckminsterFuller
Buckmister Fuller's thoughts in 1917 that "we actually had the possibility of doing so much with so little and might be able to take care of all humanity at the highest standard of living anyone has ever experienced, and to do it by 1985. And if we did that, the whole raison d'etre of war would disappear."
Quoted in "R. Buckminster Fuller : an autobiographical monologue/scenario"
Hand-drawn #PixelArt#WorldMap of planet Earth. Modified Fisher-Snyder projection, inspired by #BuckminsterFuller 's #DymaxionMap. Should be possible to print this out, cut and fold it into a regular icosahedron (d20). Possible territorial omissions and distortions are purely coincidental, hopefully did not forget anything major lol #dotpict
" So we find the bird, then, designed with integral wings for his real, his medium then, is the air. In gases he can fly beautifully. But when he's not flying he cannot divest himself of his wings, so the wings then, when he tries to walk around are quite encumbering."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller, All I Know Lectures
The Spilhaus Projection. In 1942, Athelstan Spilhaus produced a world map with a unique perspective, presenting the world's oceans as one body of water.
Source: Atheistan Spilhaus, Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries, 1991
Cartographie: Clara Dealberto
Buckminster Fuller also did a "One-Ocean World Map" with Antarctica in the centre a year later in 1943. It's not as well remembered by the World Wide Web as the Dymaxion Map is.
For me, this is truly helpful, giving me a way to think about our current #global#realities and consider ways to ameliorate public complacence and our ever-quickening descent into an #apocalyptic#hellscape.
I'm sure others have stated much the same, or better, but this came up in a #YouTube#video I'm watching and I needed this, now.