Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!
Actually, the people of Rome loved Nero because he sponsored huge public works projects funded by taxes on the senatorial class who rebelled and overthrew him.
Let's just say he was a maverick.
I think Tsar* Nero was a libertarian socialist.
*More accurate than Emperor
Tsar is a slavic word, the correct word would be Imperator or Caesar.
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