t's no accident, and it's not limited to women. Throughout history, the fruits of what we call civilization such as all that esteemed Greek learning would never have been possible under a just economic system. How can a large group of men have the time and energy to come up with grand philosophies and other works of art without unjustly appropriating the surpluses produced by the labor of cohorts of coerced women and slaves? Aristocrats are only able to be idle because they feed parasitically on the induced labor of others. I don't see why this should be celebrated though, as Bertrand Russell said of the leisure class, "The class might produce one Darwin, but against him had to be set tens of thousands of country gentlemen who never thought of anything more intelligent than fox-hunting and punishing poachers." So, if enlightenment and achievement are our goals, why not strive for a society where leisure is spread out more equally among all people, including women, so that the creative energies of all of society are unleashed, rather than depending on a select few men who acquire their station in life through the most morally repugnant means? We can have a stable society without slavery, though slavery can be very stable.