ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapter of this book. The book shows two things on economic inequality. First of all, the picture of polarization looks very different if the book deals only or primarily with what occurs within relatively wealthy states or if the book deals with what occurs within the world-system as a whole. The primary objective ensures that the new system guaranteed the continuation of three key features of the present system, hierarchy, exploitation, and polarization. The book discusses the gloomy picture of an overshoot about which science itself can do little or nothing with the subsistence of "an underground heterogeneous magma" of resistance that has "limited the destructive power of the system", on ecology. The book finds the loci of resistance in the relatively more "democratic" states, which are the wealthier ones.
