The article hardly attempts to say structuring our societies to maximize its ability to crush rebellions is a good thing. It does say that solely maximizing ind

The article hardly attempts to say structuring our societies to maximize its ability to crush rebellions is a good thing. It does say that solely maximizing individual spheres of rights and opportunity of commercial profit may actually not be a great idea. I think this is hardly a controversial opinion. Like I agree that more context about helots would have shored up this article nicely, but I also think that all the chatter about its absence misses the point of the article.