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Eat the rich. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon to c/memes

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[–] RizzRustbolt 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He was pretty cool with slavery though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

At least he was also captured and sold as a slave. Moreover, Dio Chrysostom chose him as his anti-slavery champion in Diogenes or On Servants.

Diogenes argues that it is better not to have slaves at all, observing that:

... nature has made each man a body that is sufficient for looking after himself. — Dio, Oration 10.10

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Child of his time. A working society without slaves wasn't imaginable.

[–] disgrunty 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Also slavery was typically ~~nowhere near as~~ a different sort of brutal in that era. Still brutal and terrible, but not "working people to death and then shipping in more people to work to death" brutal.

Edit: changed my wording because slavery has always been fucking horrible, e.g. eunuchs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you got Sundays off and could keep property. Still not a good practice and I don't agree that society wouldn't have been able to function without it (maybe mining)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's not about if it would've been possible, it's whether people could imagine that it'd be possible.