You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.
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We live in a very unequal society.
I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.