Don’t be glib. It’s about more than what kind of job you’re going to have. There are way different stressors today. Not only that, it’s constant and inescapable, due to technology.
In the ancient world, you didn’t even have to worry about your station. It was decided for you. Marcus was groomed into being an emperor by his forbear (who was not his father). He didn’t have fight for it, or achieve his fortune like the rat race we have today.
That’s good in one way, bc it was his merit and nature that made him a candidate in the eyes of his predecessor, and not the popularity contest we have today (or succession, which is ironically the case of how his only living child who turned out to be a living nightmare, Commodus, came to power).
No Soul is burdened with a load greater then it can bear.
This is why comparisons are flawed because Marcus grew up in a society that is far more tougher then the cushioned lifestyles we are accustomed to.
The food they ate was far purer and more nutritious and so was the air they breathed, we have none of this today.
They had strong robust communities and tribes that leaned on each other and a level of cooperation and togetherness we have lost in our individualistic society today were everyone is alone.
They fast majority of them were self-sufficient with financial and agricultural independence per tribe, while all of us are slaves to the Satanist Talmudist Babylonian banksters we can't escape from.
I can go on and on in comparison but I agree with you, we have it a lot worse today.
The key difference is that back then it was much more difficult to stand out because quality was in abundance as opposed to today were it's the opposite and easier to stand out.
The cushioned society of today is designed to make you weak in every facet of life, on top of this, we deal with perpetual chemical, psychological, cultural and emotional warfare.
You yourself have succumbed to the cultural/ideological warfare to the point you embraced the Satanist religion of atheism to your own spiritual and psychological determent.
You swallowed the poison of second/third wave feminism designed to destroy families, communities and society as a whole, a foreign ideology not even conducive to your own biological predisposition.
Now this is your shameless state as an 'empowered educated female" supporting a litany of degenerate and ideologically destructive positions.
In the old days you would have never embarked on this path of self-destruction and lunacy, you would have worked for the interest of your tribe, embraced it's culture and religion and fought tooth and nail to preserve all.
In old age, you would be on the front-line fighting tooth and nail against dom, brothels and prostitution and the rest of the degeneracies that you now ignorantly support.
Because you would realise it will tear your community, society and tribe apart and when that happens the biggest losers are the old ladies in that tribe whom no one wants.
All that supposed 'education' and 'empowerment' has had ZERO benefit for you! It was supposed to make you better but all it has done is make you worse, no introspection, no deep-thinking, no critical self-analysis.
I recall story that happened in Somalia were the mother supplicated day and night to her Lord for her son to be able to speak, and when the supplication was answered and her son spoke for the first time, he began to curse her and she started to have regrets and wished he no longer spoke.
That's your Juxtapose Vixr.