"Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within. The impact of material differences takes a while to show up: but in due course competition for status and goods increases; people feel a growing sense of superiority (or inferiority) based on their possessions; prejudice toward those on the lower rungs of the social ladder hardens; crime spikes and the pathologies of social disadvantage become ever more marked. The legacy of unregulated wealth creation is bitter indeed."
Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land, New York Review of Books, April 29, 2010
* Random thoughts is a attempt to use the words and thoughts of others to illuminate aspects of contemporary life here in Australia and Western Australia.
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