...for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Lower-ranking oppressors mirror the taxes they face from above.
- In plain terms
- Those below copy the unfair rules from above.
- What can you take from it?
- Oppression often replicates itself downward.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do hierarchies sustain themselves?
- How can cycles break?
Another view
Systems also change upward through reform.
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