Poverty To Control The People In Utopia, By Sir Thomas More

Through Utopia, More provided the leaders of his time with the keen insights to help improve his world by claiming that leaders should not use poverty to control his people, harshly tax his people, and take benefits of people’s hard work. Leaders should not use poverty to control his people. In Utopia, Sir Thomas More wrote “Certainly it is wrong to think that the poverty of the people is a safeguard of public peace.” More meant that a ruler should not use poverty to control his people. Having people depending on leaders or the government for their own welfare or existence can lead to more crime. Those who have less are more likely to commit more crime because they have less to lose and everything to gain. A leader should control crime and keep his people safe. Poverty does not help in anyway to stop crime. A leader should not use poverty to control his people because it is morally unjust and wrong to do so. A leader should not use poverty to control his people simply because he would not be able to keep his people under control that way. If a leader is going to govern, he should do it
In Utopia another thing that More wrote was, “Let him live on his own income without wronging others, and limit his expenses to his revenue.” More meant leaders should let their people live off the money they earn and not take money from others. Leaders should also tax their people equally according to what they earn. Therefore, by not doing so, a leader is not doing his job correctly because he is manipulating his people and taking away their happiness for the sake of his own. He is being selfish. Leaders should not harshly tax their people because it is unfair and morally incorrect to take more than he should from his hardworking people just to benefit himself. A leader should be fair and a good role model for his people to look up to. If a leader harshly taxes his people he does not know the true value of hard work or