The Roman Empire was not necessary to keep industry going: metal production in Britain rose after the Romans withdrew.

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• Slavery was not necessary for industrial capitalism to emerge in general, though it may explain why Britain specifically industrialized first. DKDavis Kedrosky12 Oct 2022
• Roman economic growth came from institutions rather than from technology, which is why it did not outlive the institutions that produced it. BDBret Devereaux26 Aug 2022
• Handing an ancient society a modern machine would have achieved nothing: the Romans could neither have built a steam engine nor found a profitable use for one. BDBret Devereaux26 Aug 2022
• The fall of the Western Roman Empire was a real loss of state capacity, not merely a change of management, and the evidence for that loss is ample. BDBret Devereaux28 Jan 2022
• Progress is not driven mainly by material resources, so running out of them is not what would stop it. JCJason Crawford12 Sept 2020

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