Plato on Sustainability

Plato then went on to write, “Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

Since organized human civilization emerged on this planet, people have been commenting on the ideal state of man; this is arguably the most astute example.

What amazes me most is the phrase, “both of discontent.”  It’s so obviously true that the increasingly wide chasm between rich and poor produces massive discontent at both ends, but this is so far away from modern thinking.