How could you go about retaining a wealthy realm, but also making sure nobody holds too much money and uses it to sway policy? If Carthage was run by the warriors and generals and not the (((merchants))) like Hanno II, they could've owned the world instead of their nemesis who eventually did. Pacifist backstabbers broke the Carthaginian mandate for destiny (where have I heard that before)?
It's my understanding that modern China is rather good at this, but I don't know enough for sure.

>>17862920 (OP)
Make public examples of the wealthy who engage in bribery / the politicians who accept said bribes, which could only come after major reforms to political donations. The wealthy merely existing and the wealthy having undue influence on the body politic don't have to be one and the same.

>>17862920 (OP)
>Pacifist backstabbers broke the Carthaginian mandate for destiny
The Carthaginian Senate was more or less completely on board with war until the very end. If anything by the time they started interacting with the Romans they were more belligerent and militaristic than they had ever been before and their society still engaged in mass conscription, albeit not to the length that the Central Italians did.