This is What Money Is Jealous Of | The Stoic Is A Work In Progress

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. This is what money is jealous of. You think they have it all, you think they have the good life, you think they have everything they could possibly want. But the rich, the powerful, they are actually incredibly jealous people. They are jealous not just of other rich people and therefore often feel quite poor, according to Seneca, but they are also jealous of seemingly ordinary people.

Like who? people with freedom, people with time, people who are happy. You think Marcus Aurelius, for all his wealth and power, didn't wish he could trade places with the philosophers he so admired? Of course he did. You think Seneca, at the end, having gotten so much money from Nero and thus unable to escape his clutches, didn't envy the more austere philosophers who shied away?

Was his dying regret. no doubt. Gold, power, fame as elusive and rare as these things are, time is a much more precious resource, and yet it is wasted on the young and the rich alike. But you can have those things easily. In fact you may well have them right now.

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