One could easily write and an article titled “Stoicism’s Appeal to the Poor and Disenfranchised.” Power and wealth is orthogonal to Stoic Philosophy. It counters much of today’s culture of blame of jealously of others and offers a more fulfilling and pragmatic outlook on one’s circumstances, rich or poor.
But the article's point is that its social ethos consists of just justifying the way things are. Two millenia later, we figured out that we can improve many of the way things were, we nearly abolished chattel slavery, we abolished a few diseases, we replaced debt slavery with bankruptcy...
