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How Many Roman Soldiers Survived to Retirement?
YouTube ^ | November 11, 2022 | toldinstone

Posted on 11/28/2022 3:02:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: Larry Lucido

Many of them were supported in their old age by The Human Fund.


21 posted on 11/28/2022 5:00:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Money for people.)
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To: SunkenCiv

If they were in Varus’s legion they didn’t need to worry about retirement.


22 posted on 11/28/2022 5:17:03 PM PST by mware
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To: Textide
I’d be curious what most of them did afterwards.

They got lucrative jobs in aerospace companies

23 posted on 11/28/2022 5:45:22 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: mware

Give Me Back My Legions!


24 posted on 11/28/2022 9:04:18 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: SunkenCiv

So the actuaries in Rome figured that giving 100 hectares to 5% of soldiers who made it to retirement well covered the cost.

You can bet that there were more than a few Crassus types waiting around to “pay cash” for the promised properties.


25 posted on 11/28/2022 9:09:03 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: nicollo

Settling retired soldiers into relatively new or sparsely populated provinces probably led to money for someone, somewhere, somehow. Having Roman settlement where it can generate produce, meat, wine, and/or tax revenue may have figured into it. If a commander / emperor had a big chunk of territory in his possession, getting the state to pay him for it so he could distribute it piecemeal to some of his former soldiers would make him popular and flush with cash.


26 posted on 11/28/2022 9:44:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Makes sense. A few parallels to the US, although a few different requirements, none of which for rendering actual service to society.


27 posted on 11/28/2022 10:01:01 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: DannyTN

They got land and money and were highly reg. They could run for office and eve progress up the cursus nobilis
Retirement be good


28 posted on 11/28/2022 10:18:48 PM PST by Cronos (.)
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To: SunkenCiv

A Roman soldier is just about to retire with a nice pension after 25 years when the emperor orders every 10th man killed aka Decimation. He was number 10.....
The emperor pockets the pension.

Still done today at GE where 10% are fired in every dept every year regardless and other companies decimate their companies usually right before Christmas.


29 posted on 11/28/2022 10:46:55 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

Uh, no.

“Decimation was never a common punishment”

https://www.livius.org/articles/concept/decimation/


30 posted on 11/28/2022 11:01:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Did they invest in a CDI(k) plan?


31 posted on 11/29/2022 3:27:53 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
32 posted on 11/29/2022 3:33:53 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Textide

“I’d be curious what most of them did afterwards.”

Bought a bar in Miami.


33 posted on 11/29/2022 3:46:47 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: COBOL2Java

LOL


34 posted on 11/29/2022 6:28:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Haha, nice!


35 posted on 12/01/2022 3:41:50 PM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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