Rome was not lacking in citizenry by the end, so from my own cursory knowledge on the subject Helmet guy is closer to reality.
Without writing paragraphs about it, the Greek and Roman empires both collapsed due to outsourcing their military to janissaries who then received citizenship and an excessive amount of African slave labor. Elon is extremely wrong. He's also so wealthy that it really doesn't matter how wrong he is, he has fully transitioned into a Princess Morbucks style caricature of a loathsome wealthy cunt.
We need to prepare young men for hard physical work if we want them to take those jobs which are the ones actually in demand. Instead we will focus more time to teaching them political correctness and office work skills.
It isn’t my area of expertise but I do remember the Roman military becoming increasingly less Roman as it fell apart.
Western Rome decayed for a variety of reasons, but population decline wasn't one of them. Interestingly, there are two major hypotheses for its decline that are very relevant to Elon:
If we didn't have jeets taking all the white collar jobs and illegals taking all the blue collar ones, every industry would be in demand.
Young men will pounce at the jobs if they gain something from it. They are disincentivized from it entirely. Apply this to everywhere the US has a "shortage of workers" that need to be filled by foreign labor.
3. Awarding women political power. This one is undeniable.
RHG is right but also the answer is more nuanced. It wasn't just the outsourcing of the military, it's political class had also become almost entirely retarded and incompetent and several of the emperors after Augustus were just batshit insane. The empire bankrupted itself and acted as though they were the Rome of old even though they were visibly weaker and poorer, and the barbarians took notice.
Didn't one of the emperors become a tranny that liked to sneak out at night and let dudes rail him, on top of being so hated by everyone that his own guards assassinated him
Fun fact: The Western Roman empire was so far gone that, by the time it fell in 476, the capital was no longer even in fucking Rome - it was in Ravenna
Musk knows fuckall about roman history. he butchered the fuck out of a latin quote a few times as well. I'm sure he's good at whatever it is he does, sell snakeoil to retards.. but outside of that, he's pretty dumb.
I used to think he was good at PR, and I guess he still is with his products, but on ideas? Fuck no.
Helmet guy is ultimately right imo. The Romans increasingly relied on German and other barbarian mercenaries, and even settled tribes on the border called foederati. Some of these foederati included the Franks and Visigoths(this tribe ultimately ended up sacking Rome instead of protecting it).
