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🎙️ Episode 3: The Colosseum in Your Pocket - Why We're Repeating Rome's Costliest Mistake
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🎙️ Episode 3: The Colosseum in Your Pocket - Why We're Repeating Rome's Costliest Mistake

🎙️ Episode 3: The Colosseum in Your Pocket - Why We're Repeating Rome's Costliest Mistake
The Erica TheFuturist Podcast
0:00 11:38

In this episode

Rome had bread and circuses to keep its citizens distracted while the empire's economy quietly restructured underneath them. Today, we have infinite scroll and sports betting apps doing the exact same job — while agentic AI, prediction markets, and entirely new career categories reshape the economy in plain sight.


In this episode, I break down the historical parallel in detail, what's actually shifting in the economy right now, and the practical steps to get positioned instead of distracted.


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