• Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Nah, the guy I'm thinking of had this idea for a utopian society and he had a lot of ideas that were pretty cool and ahead of his time, but then he was just like, foreigners will volunteer to be slaves just so they can be a part of this society, and they'll do all the work. Existential Comics did a comic about him.

    Edit: My mistake, it wasn't a Greek philosopher, it was Thomas More

    • Ziege_Bock [any]
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      3 years ago

      It does line up with a sentiment in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen

      Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all.

      Blepyrus: But who will till the soil?

      Praxagora: The slaves.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Tbh I've had the same thought. Meme level understandings of philosophers/philosophy can do more harm than good. Still ok sometimes tho.