Comments on: Management Theories of Roman Slave-Owners

By: Coyote

Coyote — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:39:07 +0000

And, Mr. Greer, the point of this article had nothing to do with comparing “productivity” of Romans, who lived in different time-space universe than us, with today’s “corporate wage-slave” management. Leadership should mean something besides interchangeable slaves who are treated like $#@!, used up, and thrown under the bus to improve the “bottom line”, which seems to be most of our current MBA “management” thinking.

By: Coyote

Coyote — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:30:19 +0000

T. Greer, modern firms produce little or nothing except parasites, sociopaths, and psychopaths who backstab and step on civilized people to gain power over others in their journey up the corporate ladder. Your delusion of “market forces” as a “good” is a fantasy propped up by ivory tower indoctrination and a religious belief in “money” as the ultimate good, inculcated by Calvinist acceptance of the Babylonian woe, usury. “Work” is slavery. Listen to the souls trapped in the vicious circle of debt enslavement and endless pain of seeking “more” — stuff, raises, keeping up with the joneses, yada yada — and the masters only want more slaves, “cattle” in their terminology. Wake up and smell the slaughterhouse down the road.

By: T. Greer

T. Greer — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:44:32 +0000

Modern firms are far more productive than the Romans ever were. The market destroys firms whose culture keeps them from offering goods and services on par with their competitors. I wouldn’t take business tips from the Romans.

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 05:26:59 +0000

The most resemblance we have to slavery today is taxes. Taxes are imposed on those that don’t agree with them by force. Democracy or a Dictatorship, the end is the same; Democracy is just voting to choose the winner who can use the State violence.

But I am not surprised that a director of classical studies chose corporations, where there is no violence if someone doesn’t want to be part of it.

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:56:42 +0000

If you enjoyed this, you may also enjoy Business Secrets of the Pharaohs by Mark Corrigan

By: Borepatch

Borepatch — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 15:42:49 +0000

I’m reading Will Durant’s “Caesar and Christ” (Vol 3 of the Story of Civilization), and he mentions repeatedly how Emperors (starting with Augustus) imposed criminal penalties on masters who were cruel to their slaves. It eventually (100 A.D.?) became illegal to kill a slave.