In it he outlines a world where everyone works according to their abilities and consumes according to their needs. “Utopia” was derived from the Greek for “nonsense”, which More invented for a perfect world in an ideal state. Both ignored that much more prevalent entity, state even, without which no map of the world has ever been complete. In every age it has been far and away the most populous place on Earth, as today. Its numbers, of course, exceed the 480 million in South America and the 347 million in the United States.

Source: The Irish Times December 15, 2025 04:31 UTC