Hubris – economic and political

The human right will inevitably yield to the right of the state to exercise its sovereignty. Absent a mitigating sacred institution to limit the state's prerogatives to exercise its own power over its own citizens the inclination to xenophobia will eradicate the respect the state must display for the individual's autonomy. 

If insecure abundance is the result of the humongous hollowness of 'more is better,' then abundant insecurity is the result of the cowardice of ethnic cleansing. The former is the economic manifestation of hubris. When you are able to admit how it is that much of what you have is given to you it becomes easy to declare enough as enough; when you believe that what you have is the fruit of your own endeavor then you can always make more, and, indeed, you need to be striving always to be making more. The latter is the political manifestation of hubris. 

When you admit that much of what you have is given to you it becomes easy to share your bounty with others; when you believe that what you have is the fruit of your own endeavor then strangers who are unlike you are a threat to your political integrity. 

The challenge of humility is how to measure what the other undeserving person needs to do to redeem with gratitude the bounty they have been given. Where does desert fit in to the obligation of the recipient of a gift to pass it along? How do we manage the sense of desert we feel about what others have been granted? 

Pharaoh invoked the political aspect of hubris rather than the economic aspect of hubris, which aspect Joseph the Hebrew originally instituted in the Egyptian body politic. When the new Pharaoh elected not to know Joseph what he didn't know was Joseph's economic version of hubris and so he instituted the political version.