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I’m going to guess the poster meant studying Aristotle, Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, etc. Rather than more modern theorists. If that’s what the pos

• anon291 3y ago
  Yes... this is what I meant. People don't read the classics. Classics aren't good because they're old. They're good because they're the original 'good reads 5 star review' except it's even better because you're taking votes from dead people too. It's not just the Greek greats either. The same basic approach to human behavior has been discovered by all great cultures. The Indians, the Persians, the Chinese, etc... all of them knew how humans acted and wrote endless treatises on it. At the end of the day... people act the same. When you read 1000-year-old stories and realize people then behaved the same way now, you start to understand the things that make people tick. It's not going to be any different tomorrow than it is today. People do not change. Yes their circumstances do, and if you look only at the response you might conclude they actually changed, but the way in which people respond rarely change substantially. > people try to understand the relationship between Apple and Google by looking at the relationship between the dutch and the british east india company. Absurd. Of course, we shouldn't look at apple and google and think the dutch and british east india company would be the same. They're different. But what doesn't change is people and yes, you can look at the people behind the companies and they will probably all act the same. Corporations are not people; people are people.