> If you find that you are at the end of your wits and unable to find one more source for management advice to the point that you have to turn to the masters of

> If you find that you are at the end of your wits and unable to find one more source for management advice to the point that you have to turn to the masters of slaves of a few thousand years ago I think you've interpreted the article as some kind of prescriptive document modeled on slavery. This isn't Business Insider. It's Aeon. If anything the article comes across as critical of modern management by way of being too similar to Roman slave management. But it's more interesting than that. It's a look at how Roman slavery was a very complex system, much different from the way we popularly imagine "Slavery" (with a capital "S")--AKA American chattel slavery. I think that your revulsion is coming from a very beautiful place, and that you're a bit out of step here. We can rightly revile chattel slavery, and despise the thought of ancient slavery, and also be curious about it.