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<blockquote>For when a pauper, a needy hireling, persuades himself that by being what he is he has escaped poverty, one cannot avoid the conclusion that he labours under some mistake.</blockquote>
This conjures up images of a Cynic philosopher “conquering” the horrors of poverty through askesis. Lucian suggests that laboring under these conditions, or perhaps this ideology, is mistaken. Maybe it is not natural to escape poverty while still being impoverished. Perhaps this is a lost cause in the grand scheme of things.
