I enjoyed listening. Such rich material. One aspect of the timocratic and the oligarchic types you might have spoken more about is frugality. Before the appetite takes over, the person acquires money but hates spending it and this tightness over money prevents the timocratic person from winning any contests which turns him or her into the oligarch, who thereby gives up competition over anything but money. In the history of the US this is evident in how the puritans progressed from religious ascetics who hid their wealth in order to get the front row pew seats but generations later started to flaunt their nouvea-riche and look down upon asceticism in regard to comforts.
I enjoyed listening. Such rich material. One aspect of the timocratic and the oligarchic types you might have spoken more about is frugality. Before the appetite takes over, the person acquires money but hates spending it and this tightness over money prevents the timocratic person from winning any contests which turns him or her into the oligarch, who thereby gives up competition over anything but money. In the history of the US this is evident in how the puritans progressed from religious ascetics who hid their wealth in order to get the front row pew seats but generations later started to flaunt their nouvea-riche and look down upon asceticism in regard to comforts.
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