Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization

The payments company's cultural power may be its most remarkable trait.

What if Romulus and Remus had gotten along?

As the story goes, after creating their first settlement, Rome’s wolf-weaned founders fell out over the right hill upon which to build their city. While Remus liked the Aventine, Romulus preferred the Palantine.

Romulus exercised the most final method of winning an argument, killing Remus. In the aftermath, the …