An idea from The Republic

Socrates suggests reading justice in larger letters first, so they build a city in words. It starts small, with farmers, builders and weavers, each doing one job. Glaucon calls it “a city of pigs”, and once luxuries come in, the city needs more land, then war, then soldiers.

From The Republic by Plato

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