wealthy.1019 They are wealthy, even though beggars, and noble though slaves.1020 They are not eager for wealth1021 yet they are good economists, since they know the proper source,1022 time, method, and extent of money-making. The worthless, on the other hand, are most needy, even though wealthy.1023 Chrysippus seems to have advanced still farther, in teaching the negative doctrine that wealth is an evil, since it may come from an evil source,[##] an idea suggestive of the modern theory of “tainted money.” Naturally, he with the other Stoics, was in sympathy with the Socratics, in objecting to the use of one’s knowledge for purposes of money-making.1024
The cosmopolitan attitude of the Stoics caused them to be opposed to the theory of slavery as a natural institution.1025 They taught that enforced service is no evidence of slavery,1026 but that the real slaves are the ignoble and foolish.1027 The wise, on the other hand, alone are free, though they are slaves to countless masters.1028
Chrysippus, like Zeno, probably had dreams of a future ideal state, where the highest eternal law would rule and individual strivings would be lost in the care for the common weal.1029 If he taught family communism, it was