How have we changed since Cicero's day in 55 BC??

from Chris White:

So what have we learned in 2  millennia???

"The budget should be balanced, the  Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance  of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance  to foreign lands should be curtailed lest  Rome  become  bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of living  on public  assistance."
                                                          -  Cicero  - 55 BC

Evidently,  nothing.