Single Idea 21486

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery]

Full Idea

Poverty and slavery are only two forms - on might almost say two words for - the same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Gist of Idea

Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing

Source

Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], IX:125)

Book Reference

Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'Essays and Aphorisms [from Pand P]', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1970], p.150


A Reaction

The modern world is full of people who righteously despise slavery, but think only of the poor that it serves them right.