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The options of a #Stoic philosopher-king: #coach or #suffer

Human beings exist for the sake of one another: so either teach them or endure them

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@paninid This reminds me of a great story in Jill Lepore's book The Mansion of Happiness where Fred Taylor of Taylorism fame went before a congressional committee to promote his views and the committee chairman wasn't having it.

I read this book more than 10 years ago and his mic drop "…for whose benefit society is organized" is still ringing in my brain.

"You have told us of the effect on the pile," an exasperated committee member said, "but what about the effect on the man?" Wilson wanted to know what happened to workers who weren't "first-class men."

THE CHAIRMAN: Scientific management has no place for such men?

MR. TAYLOR: Scientific management has no place for a bird that can sing and won't sing....

THE CHAIRMAN: We are not ... dealing with horses nor singing birds. We are dealing with men who are part of society and for whose benefit society is organized.

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