Right, Marcus Aurelius an Emperor of Rome, successful reformer of it's society, public works, and education, successful leader of it's military, and generally considered one of the leaders of Rome's Golden age, was merely an unsuccessful loser trying to cope.

The only one coping here is the author of the comment, who has evidently entirely mis-understood anything about Stoicism and needs to read more.

Yikes

You know Marcus Aurelius was emperor of Rome right? It's not startup founder successful, but it's definitely moderately successful.

really? are you sure?

Take a look into the illustration about Seneca on wasting your time, e.g. - from what Ive observed: Successful people know exactly when their time gets wasted and what could be done instead and not to waste time on irrelevant things.

There are lot of inspiring mind sets in there.