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Well-paid software developers from first world countries for some reason do like stoicism.
by Yajirobe 4y ago
Well-paid software developers from first world countries for some reason do like stoicism.
- Eleison23 4y agoIt seems that they engage in some degree of Epicureanism, as well.
- jkmcf 4y agoIt worked quite well for both a Roman slave and the last, great Roman emperor, why not everyone else in between?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoEpictetus? He gained his freedom before he began teaching iirc. And was influential and tremendously respected even before that. The contours of roman slavery are complex and I'm not fully informed on them but my understanding is that he would have spent much of his life closer to an emperor in status than to the chattel slavery that modern people are likely to imagine.