Yeah. Publicani, usually cited as example of protocapitalist ventures, were bashed even by the people from aristocracy doing exactly the same thing, but personally by the office instead of equites forming an company.

Wait a second, is that some of the dreaded example of “The history of all hitherto existing human society is the history of class struggles.”? Oh oh no, we need immediately derail the line of thoughts into some romaboo nitpicking of legionnary armour details!