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is a pattern of variation in well-being among people or groups (in income, consumption, education, malnutrition, etc.).

McKay (2002) defines inequality as a pattern of variation in well-being among people (orgroups of people), visualized through indicators such as income, consumption, education, malnutrition,etc.

is a state manifestly contrary to the law of nature whereby a handful of people gorges themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is grounded in the contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity.

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

is indeed the outcome of countless acts of injustice and violence, but it is only upon that very same edifice (i.e. Our culture) that such a decree can even be made.

Property and justice. When the socialist show that the division of property among present-day mankind is the outcome of countless acts of injustice and violence, and in summa repudiate any obligation towards something having so unjust a foundation, they are seeing only one aspect of the matter. The entire past of the old culture was erected upon force, slavery, deception, error... but we, the heirs and inheritors of all these past things, cannot decree our own abolition and may not wish away a single part of them. The disposition to injustice inhabits the souls of the nonpossessers too, they are no better than the possessers and have no moral prerogative over them, for their own ancestors were at some time or other possessers. What is needed is not a forcible redistribution but a gradual transformation of mind: the sense of justice must grow greater in everyone, the instinct for violence weaker. (nietzsche 'human all too human' : 166)

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 arises not from disparities of wealth, but from disparities of opportunity.

All thoughtful democrats agree that the main threat to democracy from within arises, not from disparities of wealth, but from disparities of opportunity.

is systematic disparities between participants in power and control over goals, resources and outcomes.

I define inequality in organizations as systematic disparities between participants in power and control over golas, resources, and outcomes... workplace decisions such as how to organize work... opportunities for promotion and interesting work... security in employment and benefits... pay and other monetary rewards... respect... and pleasures in work and work relations' (Acker, Joan. 2006. 'Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class and Race in Organizations,' Gender and Society. 2006.

's greatest source is special privileges granted by government.

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government. Milton Friedman

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