Utopia - Book 1

"the advise of an outsider no matter how wise, would meet with disdain"
I agree with Hythloday's comment. If I had a problem and was seeking advise, I would listen to a family member or a best friend before I took the someone else's advice. I would listen and think about what the stranger said but like the princes follow my family or friends advice. And why work for someone when you can work for yourself and do as you please? Hythloday is right in not wanting to work for the king. If the king really needed Hythloday, the king could go to him and pay whatever Hythloday charges. But again, there's the question of taking the advice and doing something with it. Plus with Hythloday being so accustomed to traveling as he pleases, it would be hard for him to be stationary.
I've heard of cutting off a hand if you are caught stealing but put to death. That's a little extreme!! What happens when the victim catches the thief and kills the thief himself? The victim is now a murderer. Does he get put to death also? England was just a killing field. Hythloday gives the Cardinal ideas of ways to deal with the stealing but will the Cardinal persuade the king to implement these changes. Probably not!
"On the day that their king first assumes office, he must take an oath ... that he will never have in his treasury at any one time more that a thousand pounds..." That would never work in the United States. Today a thusand pounds equal $1860.70 US dollars. This is probably not enough to pay the bills at the White House let alone the people in Congress. Keeping a set amount wouldn't work here we have too many people eating support for their own policies and practices.
I don't think More realizes it but he is proving Hyloday's point that he should not be a counsel of a king. More, himself disagrees with Hythloday.