Closing Statement for "The Republic Debate"

Oligarchy is the best society because our main focus is on the economy, not using war as a way to create fear or pride like a timarchic society, or like the republic that doesn’t provide any form of competition but only creates a greater disparity between the people and the Guardians. Our society provides fair competition just like the example that Plato offers of the little boy whose father lost all his wealth and power, but he sought to better his life and future and built his wealth from the ground up.  Our people have the opportunity to better themselves and gain wealth.

As stated above, competition and the opportunity to gain wealth in our society is open to all. But the common point that all the societies have attacked us on is the fact that we create very distinct groups: the poor and the rich. However, that is not true because in our society we do have a middle class. We of course, have the elite: big corporation and bank owners, and then we have the middle class who are mostly the people in power now who are accumulating wealth who later could possibly become the elite, and then we have the lower class, the service class that every society must have. There have to be people who are willing to be plumbers, mechanics, and maids.

            Another point that I want to clear up is that in our society we want to help the people, because we will provide loans and money for our economy to work and function properly. In every society, there needs to be the elite group because if there was no one that had enough money to invest then the economy would not work. 

Last but not least, just like Robert Michels stated in his “Iron Law of Oligarchy”: any bureaucratic or complex organization of government will eventually turn into an oligarchy because the wealthy will always exist and the need for them to contribute and invest in our economy is the key aspect to a successful economic society. Any society you look at will have oligarchic characteristics. We all need to realize that oligarchy is longest form of government that dates all the back to the Romans and if implemented correctly will be the most efficient.