I imagine Venice would still be first

A happy little miracle disaster

Shaming imprudent spending behaviour != “shaming poor people”

They sent them to North America first. The charting and colonisation of NSW happened shortly after the US declared independence, not a coincidence. Of course now the inbred aristocracy doesn’t run this place any more so you can keep your worst thanks

Well said. Looking down on impressionable men with this sort of smug contempt is how we go further down the path.