1.3 Man and Society: The Art of Living Together, pg. 9-12

1.3.1 As we moved from hunting to agriculture, power became disproportionately distributed to land owners, thereby creating inequality.  In all societies (e.g., Egypt, Peru, China, Japan, Rome), the landless are powerless.  The problem is that a society that has only lords and slaves typically crumbles internally and/or disintegrates through external aggression.

1.3.2 Power contains its own seeds of destruction, because it uses coercion and oppression to maintain internal loyality (keeping the subjects down) and wastes money and energy trying to continuously feed its thirst for other people's resources (or at least keep others from taking its resources).  Poor folk go to war to fight and die for the delights and riches of the powerful.

NUT: Inequality occurs when land is disproportionately distributed to a few, leaving most powerless.