All social inequality ultimately reduces to inequality of income

Evidence

All social inequality, in the long run, is inequality of income. That is part of the argument for democracy: that the attempt to have a ‘proportionate justice’ based on any merit other than wealth is sure to break down. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 817

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 817
• XREF: connects to: Biological determinism is used to excuse structural inequality.; Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures; Social reproduction theory enables analysis of family and unproductive labor beyond economic reduction (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• A person can be socially poor yet individually wealthy #contradicts (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 439
• The money economy makes social action approach pure objectivity #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 180
• Social reproduction theory enables analysis of family and unproductive labor beyond economic reduction #contradicts (0.70)
• Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures #corroborates (0.60)
• Full autonomy of social levels cannot capture a social formation’s complex unity #complicates (0.40)