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What kind of government does More's utopia have? What's life like for men and women in this utopia? Can you have an infinite number of cats without getting weird looks from your neighbors? That last one might be a personal question, but still...if someone knows the answer, we're all ears.
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature More is utopia
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Last month what kind of government does more's utopia have
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even though this was published in fifteen sixteen Ah lot
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of what appears in it is kind of recognisable Today
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the government in utopia is more or less a representative
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government People elect a single representative who you know considers
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the best interests of a set number of people and
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like in america right now those people can be gotten
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rid of if they're not being fair So it's a
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pretty even governmental system women don't take part in it
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Only men do that's very standard for this time but
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other than that it's really reasonable what's life like for
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men in this utopia in terms of work it's super
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appealing people are supposed to work but not too much
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so the work day is six hours and that gives
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them enough time to work which usually means some kind
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of manual labor for the good of their town And
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then they use the rest their time learning and studying
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and being creative but awesome but also having as much
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leisure time as they need So it's a very nice
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life What's life like for women in this utopia women
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again because they are not in the minds of these
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men able to do as much They work less They're
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still in charge of raising families and that sort of
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thing So they participate very actively just less because you
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know women are less in this mind in this mindset
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What kind of government does more's utopia have What's life
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life for men in this utopia what's life like for 00:02:06.923 --> [endTime] women in this utopia
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