The following dialogue is according to Thomas Wiedemann, in his book 'Greek & Roman Slavery' (1981).
- Poverty: But if Wealth were not blind, if he distributed himself in equal shares to everyone, there wouldn't be a single person who would bother to exercise any craft or kill. And if these disappeared, who would work as a smith or build ships or sew clothes or make wheels or shields or bricks or run a laundry or a tannery or break the soil by ploughing in order to reap Demester's harvest-if you could live without bothering about any of these things?
- Khremylos: You're talking rubbish. All the labours you've just listed could be done for us by our slaves.
- Poverty: And where would you get your slaves from?
- Khremylos: We'd buy them for money ofcourse.
- Poverty: But who would have an incentive to trade in slaves if he was already well off?
- Khremylos: Some marchant would come from Thessaly in the hope of making profit - that's where most of the men who kidnap slaves come from.
- Poverty: But the logical conclusion of your argument is that not a single slave-trader would be left. Would anyone who was rich risk his life in such a profession? Of course not - you will be forced to plough and dig and do all the other hard work yourself, and your life will be twice as unpleasant as it is now.
Mankind will never be free from his own oppression that is fueled by the obsession of power and greed! We all slaves to our own beliefs, opinions and creations. Democracy is an institution that was formed to manipulate the minds of the poor to accept the fact that they are being ruled by their own will, think about it 'democracy is the rule by the people for the people' and 'Democray is a system of rule where by the poor rule'. Marxism would suggest that there should be an equal distribution of power and wealth. Acording to Wiedemann, T (1981). Being free (libertas) is the natural ability to do whatever anyone pleases, unless one is prevented from doing it either by force or law (i'm sure you remember our last incounter with law)....
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