<span>When government workers are later hired as lobbyists the practice is referred to as the revolving door policy. Some countries have legislation against it considering it unethical, some don't care about it.</span>
<span>Four clear options emerged for the freedmen and women after the war: obtain land, move, work for former masters, or sharecrop. Some freedmen were able to obtain their own personal land to work to support themselves and their families. Others opted to move to the cities and the North to find work that was not agrarian based. Directly after the war, plantation owners established a contract labor system that employed their former slaves</span>
It happened because the consuls only cared about their own personal wealth and not for the people. The senate got richer and richer while the people got poorer and poorer. It ended with the rise of the Empire and the rule of an Emperor. The disadvantage was that all of the power was in the hand of a single person and often the Roman emperors were tyrannical.