RE: Morality
December 18, 2018 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2018 at 12:04 pm by Agnostico.)
(December 18, 2018 at 11:44 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
Uhm.... no? Roman slaves did not 'Have it better'*.
* I add the caveat that modern society has a HUGE variety of socioeconomic forms and that yes (Under specifics) there are some people who in some terms and cases are, if not worse off, perhapse on par with those slaves of Roman times.
As for language/knowledge transmission? Please look up Proffessor Lyn Kelly's book "The Memory Code". Very edifying in showing the different methods some ancient people used to pass on information as well as remember oodles of stuff.
Cmon man, better, on par. Isn't it a bit anal to pick out the tiniest little detail that could be seperated by only a dollar.
A Roman slave from 50BC was paid differnt to the slave from 300AD. I don't remember which one was better off but.
if I get the worse off employee today and the best off Roman slave I think the slave is better off.
The slave also was provided accomodation and food i think. A season pass to the Colossium... Lovely... LoL
Its all moving away from my point which is there was no word for employee back then and most people are slaves to society today anyway.
So a slave back then seems to almost translate to employee
I had a skim throught it as u mentioned it before. Looks interesting. its in the queue. thanks