Adam Sevcik

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Many would meet a similar fate. Tiberius Gracchus’s brother Gaius, for example, was also murdered by landowners, after he took the mantle from his brother.
Adam Sevcik
The extractive politics handles things through killing their enemies which led to even bigger instabilty and inequality in power. The Roman empire is the proof that infighting over political power of elites leads to fall of extractive political system and the system it governes.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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