Andrew Schulz

We know that all that existed, but it was probably a mixture of...

free men and slaves providing those services.

You may have a free man who owns a restaurant.

There were restaurants.

There was fast food in Rome, for sure.

But in Athens itself, you would have what was called the agora, which was the marketplace that existed in the center.

And you'd have people at their little markets selling stuff.

So now are those free men or women that are selling everything?

Probably not.

We don't really know.

It was probably a mixture, right?

And there were definitely free people who didn't have slaves.

So then what happens?

Well, maybe there's an exception made for them.

So all of the variation that exists in our modern world certainly existed back then.

So rather than, I guess my explanation is rather than it being one thing or the other, it's probably all of it.

You know, probably there were free people who really couldn't be involved in politics because I got to work.

You know, and people are like, hey, man, you should come up and blah, blah, blah.

Okay, well, who's going to man my stand?

Oh, you should get a, you know, go get a sermon.