"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."
- Mary DouglasMary Douglas was a well-known British social theorist and anthropologist who wrote extensively on sociology, religion, and anthropology. One of her noteworthy observations centers on the difficulties in attaining actual equality in societies. Douglas maintained that true equality is more complicated…