It is a fortunate grocer who is able to collect 80 per cent. He closed them slowly for a moment, as if to collect his routed thoughts. They give you a lot of trouble to collect, and nobody else will trouble to listen. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. I beg you, sir, to collect your spirits, and to listen to me calmly.
Social inequality and social stratification, according to this view, lead to a meritocracy based on ability. Conflict theorists, on the other hand, view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups.
Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has become one of the most influential social scientists in America, using racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor.