Unto This Last · Concept
Inequality and Power
Ruskin explores how wealth is fundamentally about power over others, and that the pursuit of riches often involves creating and maintaining inequality, which can be either just or unjust depending on its methods and purposes.
Ruskin explores how wealth is fundamentally about power over others, and that the pursuit of riches often involves creating and maintaining inequality, which can be either just or unjust depending on its methods and purposes.
Ruskin affirms the impossibility of equality and the eternal superiority of some men over others, while arguing that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
Inequality and Power is one of the patterns Unto This Last by John Ruskin returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.