“For no light matter is at stake, nothing less than the rule of human life.”—Socrates in Plato’s Republic, translated by Benjamin Jowett John and I were having smash burgers and fish and chips with a friend at the Outpost when our conversation turned to the problems of a society in which a few people hold so much of the wealth. We talked about greed. I said I thought part of our trouble was that we do not understand ourselves as human beings. We misunderstand what actually h