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So nothing's changed? :-/

• hutzlibu 5y ago
  For the starving, exploited third world workers in the state of illegal immigrants with no rights - probably not so much. Or for the fate of one of the real slaves. What is different today, is that slavery is mostly viewed as a bad thing. That is a accomplishment, but it doesn't mean we got rid of the misery.
• nverno 5y ago
  It amazes me, when reading stuff from ancient Rome (currently I'm reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, which was basically his diary), how similar a lot of society, day-to-day worries and the like, are to ours today. However, I think the normal person's worldview nowadays is much more similar to that of the most elite in those societies than the plebians, mostly because general education has improved so drastically.
  • GhettoComputers 5y ago
    I agree, when you study the classics like Greek philosophy, you se the same problems we have today, because socially we have not evolved even though materially there has been significant advances.