"Overwhelming and astounding inequality, especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place."
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Helmut Schoeck
1922 – 1993
österreichisch-deutscher Soziologe
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