Written by Mark Braund
Wednesday, 07 September 2011
Over the last nine weeks I have looked at the means by which a privileged elite secure for themselves vast quantities of wealth; wealth which, by any reasonable understanding of economics, is unearned and undeserved.
While unearned wealth is both a symptom and a driver of economic injustice, the objective of transformative social change is not to soak the rich, but to create an environment in which economic opportunities are more widely distributed among the population.
Unearned wealth and elite power are the foundations of minority privilege. The flip side is a vastly unequal society quite at odds with the aspirations of growing numbers of people for a more just and inclusive society.
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