Aristotle's Politics: community, the common good, and the limit money does not have
The board talks only about sponsors and numbers. Then somebody asks who the club is useful to besides its own members, and the table goes quiet.
The shared drive nobody tidies. Aristotle noticed it back in Book II — what is common to many is taken least care of — and puts two more things beside it: the capacities that appear only among other people, and the limit provisioning has and money-making does not.
At the next board meeting get one written sentence from everyone: who is this club useful to, besides us? No numbers and no using the word "sponsor". If the sentences differ, you have found the term's most important job.
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Marble bust, a Roman copy after a bronze by Lysippos. Palazzo Altemps, Rome. PD-self (photograph, Jastrow 2006) + PD-art-70-3d + PD-old-auto (sculpture)
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