The Politics of Inequality by Michael J Thompson

Author:Michael J Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POL010000, Political Science/History and Theory, HIS036000, History/United States/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Now, as individuals differ greatly from each other, in intelligence, sagacity, energy, perseverance, skill, habits of industry and economy, physical power, position and opportunity—the necessary effect of leaving all free to exert themselves to better their conditions, must be a corresponding inequality…. The only means by which this result can be prevented are, either to impose such restrictions on the exertions of those who may possess [ability] in a high degree, as will place them on a level with those who do not; or to deprive them of the fruits of their exertions. But to impose such restrictions on them would be destructive of liberty—while to deprive them of the fruits of their exertions, would be to destroy the desire of bettering their condition … and effectually arrest the march of progress.29

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