"And it is a device of tyranny to make the subjects poor, so that a guard may not be kept, and also that the people being busy with their daily affairs may not have leisure to plot against their ruler."
From "Politics" by Aristotle.
From "Politics" by Aristotle.
Some of the things Plato and Aristotle wrote about politics, and about democracy in general were incredibly prescient and I think everyone should end up reading at least Plato's Republic and Aristotle's politics.
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