Since the beginning of the substitution of hunting and gathering for livestock and agriculture, groups appeared in the Neolithic that seized, by force, the ownership of the land and demanded, from others, the payment of taxes for exercising their work, for the transit through their supposed property or the exchange of products. It was the beginning of the time when those who produced had to request permission, and pay for it, from those who did not produce.

The increase in demographics, of those who produced, forced those who did not produce to change their strength for other reasons in order to maintain their collection requirements. Thus, different forms and names of organization arose depending on the reasons given: family rights, intention to create services for the population, own spiritual inspirations or received from terrestrial entities and even extraterrestrials.

As a reaction in some territories, the temporary cession of power arose, from those who produced, to one or several people chosen by lottery or by direct vote or through representatives of groups or classes. This system was based on what was later called the social contract and the system of checks and balances.

This is how it remained in Rome, but from Cesar Augustus (born as Gaius Octavius, ​​grandnephew of Julio Cesar) there was a paradigm shift, and the power of the leaders, over those who produced, grew based on a new base, their economic power.

Cesar Augustus’s personal economic power came from the economic plunder that he exercised over the conquered territories.

In other words, the same as in the Neolithic but with a greater territorial base.

And as in the Neolithic, not all of its economic power was applied to improving the living conditions of citizens, only a part was applied to the so-called clientelist sector, that is, groups of citizens, from different social classes, who support it in their access to new titles, all their legislative proposals or conquests of new territories and that, in exchange, they received goods, money or public positions.

This system of government, of Caesar Augustus, intended to maintain the appearance of a republic, although it acted as a hereditary kingdom, which in reality, and has remain in history, was an empire since it extended its domain to other peoples and power was centered on a person this system of government became a model. For centuries, for subsequent rulers who incorporated other forms of influence over the population to economic influence, such as art, books and the selfish and destructive customs of small human groups that avoid their control.