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Inequality and Power
How Unto This Last develops 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.
Where it surfaces
- III: Qui Judicatis Terram
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.