# Inequality and Power in Unto This Last

> Theme guide for Unto This Last by John Ruskin.

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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unto_this_last_se/chapters/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.

## Links

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