Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History

Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History

Whether today or in the deep past, when political power is wielded autocratically, the checks and leveling mechanisms that dampen inequality will tend to break down, and, over time, disparities in wealth will move closer toward their maximal potentials. In this way, the past is a mirror for what we now see.