What We Owe Each Other | Balance The Books Of Life Daily
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🗓️ 28 November 2022
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Summary
The Roman Empire at that time was enormous. Jobs were scarce. Unemployment was high. Rapid expansion and economic stagnation had led to a sort of economic recession–one not unlike the one that looms globally right now.
In response, the upper and ruling classes came together and instituted the Cura Annonae—the “care of grain.” The government distributed free grain to the poor and the suffering, ensuring that everyone had enough to eat, doing their Stoic duty to care for the common good.
It’s an inspiring legacy that continues to this day–in fact, it’s one we’ve tried to not just speak about here at Daily Stoic but act on.
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| 0:48.2 | What we owe each other. |
| 0:51.9 | In what is almost certainly his greatest piece of writing, his essay on the shortness of life, |
| 0:57.6 | Monica is writing to his newly retired father in law. |
| 1:01.9 | Now, Senica writes, you will have more time to produce the balance sheet of your own life |
| 1:07.8 | than that of the grain market. |
| 1:10.2 | You see, his father was the long time supervisor of Rome's grain toll. |
| 1:15.2 | What was that? |
| 1:16.2 | The Roman Empire at that time was enormous, with a population of some 45 million citizens. |
| 1:23.3 | Those were scarce, unemployment was high, rapid expansion and economic stagnation had led |
| 1:28.4 | to a sort of recession, not one unlike the one that looms globally right now. |
| 1:35.0 | And in response, the upper and ruling classes came together and instituted something called |
| 1:39.6 | in Latin, the care of grain. |
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