More Hellenistic than Iron Age.
If anything, Plato said it better 4 centuries earlier.
Quote: That happiness and goodness should go together is well-nigh inevitable,3 so he will desire the people to be both good and happy; but it is impossible for them to be at once both good and excessively rich.
Plato, Laws 5.742
Quote:Matthew 19:23-24King James Version (KJV)
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Matty 19
If anything, Plato said it better 4 centuries earlier.