Small government

• Abandoning private prisons and mass incarceration, focus on preventative work like curbing poverty and improving education.
  
• Subsidizing green technology and food production with low impact on the enviroment (cuting subsidies to oil companies, weapons manufacturers, etc).
  
• Cutting back on military spending. Prioritise saving lives through better healthcare rather than with highly expensive, only slightly improved military tech.
  
• Encourage and protect workers unions, prevent union busting, enforce workers rights, even for part-time workers.
  
• Ending homelessness. This would only cost 20 billion dollars, and the government would save money in the long run
  

You've got to either re-educate the world, or re-edit the species.

Somebody recently proposed that we remove the right to vote from people receiving welfare, or in other words regressing back a century or two in terms of political fairness, towards an oligarcic type of republic like in ancient rome.

or re-edit the species.

in other words regressing back a century or two

or re-edit the species.

Bingo. You can't gaslight human nature or millions of years of evolutionarily biology.

1) Abandoning private prisons and mass incarceration, focus on preventative work like curbing poverty and improving education.

2) Subsidizing green technology and food production with low impact on the environment (cutting subsidies to oil companies, weapons manufacturers, etc).

3) Cutting back on military spending. Prioritize saving lives through better healthcare rather than with highly expensive, only slightly improved military tech.

4) Encourage and protect workers unions, prevent union busting, enforce workers rights, even for part-time workers.

5) Ending homelessness. This would only cost 20 billion dollars, and the government would save money in the long run.

The "small government" conservatives speak of spends trillions bombing civillians abroad. Why is spending the money fixing real problems worse?

Crime is at an all time high,

The barbarians simply waltzed into a largely undefended empire towards the end.

citation please

because the roman army was on permanent conquest elsewhere.

Labor monopolies are not fair to independent workers struggling to get into a profession, and are also very costly to the general public.

It would be easier and more convincing to cite the readily available migration statistics away from violent urban centers where criminal rehabilitation conducted by the State has failed spectacularly.

TRIANGLE-SHIRTWAIST

citation please

because the roman army was on permanent conquest elsewhere.

Citation please.

because the roman army was on permanent conquest elsewhere

 but its grandeur may have also been its downfall. With such a vast territory to govern, the empire faced an administrative and logistical nightmare.

Labor monopolies did not eliminate Triangle-shirtwaist. The evolution of Tort law did.

because the roman army was on permanent conquest elsewhere

At that time, defense for Rome was provided by Visigoths and not an army comprised of Romans. The State failed to provide for basic defense.

 but its grandeur may have also been its downfall. With such a vast territory to govern, the empire faced an administrative and logistical nightmare.

Thank you for proving  my point. 

good thing sweatshops and de facto slave labor don't exist anywhere on planet earth today

It does exist in states where labor monopolies have removed the right to work from independent workers with the full force of the government.

Try building a house in California with independent workers. Controlled labor is slave labor.

Labor that is paid a fair wage and has the option to quit and work somewhere else is not "slave labor"