On the bright side, we have apartments full of advanced electronics and consumer products. Back then they had houses with thin walls, a library, and a record player. In order to have a bearable existence, I don’t need as much space as they did.
From their perspective, I’m living in some sort of sci-fi fantasy reality. A millionaire would have traded his mansion to have what I take for granted. They’d empty their bank accounts for an Xbox and an iPhone.
I’m writing under the assumption that my statement is being read by people in Europe and the United States. If you think the lower class in these countries are the slaves in your metaphor, you should really look into how high their standard of living is relative to the global norm.
And there were Roman slaves that enjoyed a higher standard of living relative to the global norm. We have literal white supremacists argue that chattel slavery was good actually because the standard of living blacks experience now is higher than what they would have if we left them alone.
This has nothing to do with the point I’m making. You are really going out of your way to drag racism and slavery into this argument. There must be a language barrier or something.
On the bright side, we have apartments full of advanced electronics and consumer products. Back then they had houses with thin walls, a library, and a record player. In order to have a bearable existence, I don’t need as much space as they did.
From their perspective, I’m living in some sort of sci-fi fantasy reality. A millionaire would have traded his mansion to have what I take for granted. They’d empty their bank accounts for an Xbox and an iPhone.
You mean the very things they replaced library books and vinyl records with, so they could charge us rent on knowledge and recreation as well?
I wonder if the Romans told their slaves about how modern a society they had that their ancestors would have gladly sold their land for a bath house
I’m writing under the assumption that my statement is being read by people in Europe and the United States. If you think the lower class in these countries are the slaves in your metaphor, you should really look into how high their standard of living is relative to the global norm.
And there were Roman slaves that enjoyed a higher standard of living relative to the global norm. We have literal white supremacists argue that chattel slavery was good actually because the standard of living blacks experience now is higher than what they would have if we left them alone.
This has nothing to do with the point I’m making. You are really going out of your way to drag racism and slavery into this argument. There must be a language barrier or something.
The Romans enslaved their own (and other modern day “whites”) so racism isn’t required to make the analogy.