• Gork@lemm.ee
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    I wonder if the procedures and processes for getting these set up were done in a similar manner to how it is done in modern times.

    Request for proposals, contracting with architectural and engineering firms for a Design-Build project, funding allocation, project management, and project execution.

    It’d be fascinating to see the parallels with how the ancient Romans did these with how we do them now.

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      At least partially! Requests for proposals (and often accepting lowest bidder contracts on less prestigious projects - some things never change), contracts with private entities for public undertakings (societas publicanorum), and corporations (often using a curious form of limited liability in which a slave was technically and legally owner of the firm) all existed by the Late Republic/Early Empire!

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        But on the other side of the Contracting table, a lot of water pipes were privately owned in Rome. And stealing water was very popular, if a pipe happened to pass by your house, it saved you a trip to a public source.

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          Or an expensive connection - farmers were always illegally tapping the pipes for agricultural purposes XD

    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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      You’d be surprised how far back the method of paperwork goes. I got a book of translated ancient Egyptian texts, and most of it is tax paperwork.