Killing Golden Geese
How Wealth Addiction Birthed the Middle Ages
The Greek philosopher Plato identified pleonexia as a universal problem in governance and a constant source of economic instability. By that term, he meant the universal human tendency to become wealth-addicted to a ruinous degree. The same phenomenon is also expressed in the old parable of the goose that lays golden eggs. Pleonexia defined the spectacu…