…is page 166 of the useful and informative 2022 book by economists Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund, and John F. The myth of American inequality: How government biases the policy debate (footnote deleted)
Antiquity and the world that originates from it Fill in the examples of self-serving leaders who gained power in the name of redistribution to further their own interests. Plutarch saw the struggle for power in the name of distribution of income and wealth as “the disease of the step.”