Will watch, but I remember something about this in college years ago.
Rome was a slave state. So much so, we can’t comprehend it.
It distorted their economy to the point where “labor saving” devices were viewed as a problem since they had some much excess labor, if they weren’t used up they would get restless.
I wish I could find the book we were studying back then.
A while back, here in the hallowed virtual halls of FR, someone cited, or rather mentioned, that the Emperor Vespasian viewed a demonstration of a labor-saving method of moving large stones. It was remarkable, so he bought the whole works, but only to keep it from being employed, because he had a lot of people who needed to be kept employed dragging stones around. Vespasian and his two sons made up the Flavian Dynasty, which left us the Colosseum for example.