What the well-off have failed to read from history, however, is that extreme inequality tends to breed revolutions.
This serves to represent the extreme social inequality in Madripoor, described as "a place for the very rich and the very poor".
The emergence of extreme inequality might never otherwise have been tolerated by the electorate.
He legitimized extreme inequalities in the distribution of our wealth.
The novel is set in a world of environmental catastrophe and extreme socio-economic inequality.
The book outlined her discoveries about Latin American history and extreme social inequality.
But public anger derives from the same source: extreme and seemingly insurmountable inequality.
There seems to be a vicious cycle at work here, making ours not just an economy but a culture of extreme inequality.
The combination of extreme inequality and poverty can prove explosive.
Perhaps for this reason, society has tolerated extreme inequality and is still largely silent on the issue.