Poverty In Brave New World

Through Utopia, More provided the leaders of his time with keen insight to help improve his world by claiming that leaders should not use poverty as a method of controlling his people. In Utopia More claimed, “Certainly it is wrong to think that the poverty of the people is a safeguard of public peace.”(Utopia, Sir Thomas More) What More means in this quote is that a leader should not use poverty as a means to control his people. More’s point here was when people are dependent on their leader’s or government for their own welfare and existence, it could lead to more crime. The idea of poverty is those who have less and are more likely to commit crimes because they have less to lose. When people are living in poverty, the bgy . So in More’s world, poverty should not be used within leaders or governors as a means to control their people. …show more content…
In Utopia, Sir Thomas More wrote, “Suppose I should maintain that men choose a king not for his sake, but for theirs, that by his care and efforts they may live comfortably and safely… therefore a prince ought to take more care of his people’s happiness than of his own...”(Utopia, Sir Thomas More) More meant that People should choose leaders for the good of all people and not for the good of the leaders sake. When the people choose leaders to govern them, they can live a comfortable life. And when a leader has risen to the voting of the people, he should be unselfish and care for the good of the people. The people’s interest and happiness is more important than his own desires. The idea of picking out leaders to fulfill the people’s needs helps out a lot, in which the people have chosen a man worthy of granting the people’s respect and happiness. Definitely, More claimed that leaders should not put his own self-interest over the people he