Using Socrates as main interlocutor in the dialogue and presumably as his spokesman, Plato argues that the central problem of politics is to organize the state so as to place control in the hands of individuals who understand that you cannot make people happy by simply making them richer or more powerful than their neighbors. Socrates is convinced that, so long as knowledge is only valued as a means to power and wealth, the helm of the ship of state will be sought after by ambitious individuals who are only motivated by status and profit.The main theme of this passage is