Social Inequality

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Every facet of human investigation, from spirituality to mathematics, suggests the inevitability of inequality. Stasis, in the natural order, does not last eternally; every natural system is always in danger of descending into chaos without intervention. This paper argues that should equality ever be achieved, it, too, would be in danger of disintegrating into inequality. The paper shows that, while a number of social reformers, including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx, espoused a society without inequality, in fact, it seems that each believed inequality was inevitable. The paper also uses an analogy from the series "Star Trek" to discuss a utopian society.

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"It is easy to conclude, then, that Marx and to a lesser extent, Durkheim and Weber were erroneous in their thinking that inequality could be eradicated. Indeed, from the unworkable premises they set forth with their inherent quandaries about who is in charge of determining equality, and does that make the decider unequal? it is apparent that in human society, no less than in the porcine society of George Orwell's Animal Farm, inequality is inevitable."

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