"The scale of economic inequality which exists today is less an expression of freedom and democracy as of their denial. Who, apart from the super-rich, would vote for multi-million dollar bonuses for the corporate and financial elite while denying adequate incomes to people who undertake so many essential and sometimes unpleasant tasks [...]. The truth is that modern inequality exists because democracy is excluded from the economic sphere."

- Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett in The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone