Because the Greeks you hear about were the aristocracy. You don’t hear how some estimates of the population breakdown were more than 80%-90% slaves.
Just like how you hear of the 300 Spartans, but not the several thousand Thebians, most of whom were slaves, who also defended the pass.
This is what I mention when I’m covertly pushing “radical” ideas such as 4 day work weeks. We have all of these technological advancements - Why can’t the workers see some of those benefits instead of them being funneled to the top in the form of extra profits?
We almost had a 4 day work week implemented at my job, but some Big Brain said “NO! We need to be shipping 5 days a week!”
90% of the time we don’t ship things out on Friday…
You should focus more on the orgies and figs.
… To be completely completely fair, the Greeks with power treated a substantial amount of their population as machines, forcing them to perform labor and submit themselves sexually to them, and presided over a system that might have actually viewed the eventual goal of society to be elevating the people of my City to not lives of indolent leisure & carnal pleasure through subjugating countless others…
I mean the rich people are eating figs, on their yachts, on their way to their winter home, to go skiing with their family.
Yeah…
Or eating figs on their private plane on the way to an island for…an orgy …
Hey some of us still find time for orgies… some of us are paid to do so. And figs are always delicious.
To be fair 1/3 of women don’t die in childbirth, 1/2 of children don’t die before they are ten, we have weed and booze they could never have dreamed of, freaken chocolate and aspirin, and you are highly unlikely to become a sex slave. It was paradise for a very small fraction of the population and rape/slavery/castration for the rest.
Still I could go for an orgy and some figs if anyone is in the mood.
capitalism, my comrade.
Tbh sounds like an improvement compared to their slave system
It is but it still sucks.
To be fair it’s like 30 degrees outside so the orgy might need to be postponed
What better way to warm up than being under a mass of sweaty, writhing bodies?
I mean, precisely because of that people indeed now do have fig orgies outside. Just don’t count workers as people.
welcome to crapitalism
…and then ordering their slaves to bring them another flask of wine
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So you’re saying we should have maenads chase them down in a forest, rip them apart by hand, and eat then?
They also had slaves to do the manual work 😬
When I went freelance, it was hard not having a boss at first, now I’m totally into it. It took around a year for me to get everything to where I felt good about it. I think a lot of people don’t realize that the uncomfortable feeling of not having a boss usually doesn’t last forever. The people who liked working from home probably get it. We are taught to have bosses from a very early age.
Just sounds like you don’t understand how to use technology. Fig-stealing whores have the Greeks beat.
