What is the most egalitarian society?

Question

I need back-up here, so please give me refrences where you found the information.

Answer 1

I am not sure if Sweden is the most egalitarian society, but here is a reference that may help you decide.

"The evolution of income inequality across different economic systems has received enormous attention. A key issue in the literature has been the possible trade-offs between egalitarian ambitions and incentive effects. It is not surprising therefore that Sweden, allegedly the most extensive welfare state, has been the object of a very large number of studies concerning income distribution. The achievements of the Swedish welfare state are well known.1 However, due to the lack of available micro data sets, most recent studies on income distribution have not gone further back than to 1967.2 This means that even though we can document achievements of the welfare state over the past decades, we can not really put these in historical perspective.
We do not know to what extent the equal distribution of income in Sweden is mainly the outcome of the growth of the welfare state, or if Sweden perhaps has a history of being an
egalitarian society."


I don't know if you need the most egalitarian society in all of history or in present-day, so I will do my best to help you.

"For classification purposes, there are three types of societies: egalitarian, moderated meritocracy, and unrestricted meritocracy.

Socialism is the best example of an egalitarian society. When Marx wrote "From each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs," he was acknowledging that people are certainly born with different abilities, but they should be rewarded equally."

Answer 2

Most Egalitarian Society

Answer 3

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The time when the 'aristocratic' system as you put it was in force did produce great art and so on, especially in Europe. But you must rememebr a couple of things... 1 This was due to the renaissance, where a flood of intellectuals came over Europe thereby injecting the art 'scene' with 'fresh' ideas (rather a reacquaintance with old ideas so they could develop then). The systrem might have helped via patronnage (or could have hindered, how many unknown intellectuals didn't receive patronnage and are today forgotted despite ther merits?) 2 Most of the great art and so on came from non-aristocrats; aristocracy was involved via patronnage. In today's 'egalitarian' society, the place of the nobility has been taken by 'new aristocrats'. Patronnage is still alive and well, but instead of having blue blood, the new aristocrats have green blood for the dollars flowing in their veins. On the other hand the systems in place to promote new talent have developed so that we have professional 'talent scouts' or say gallery owners who try and find the next-hot-thing. This casts the nest wider than before. SImilarly, developments in the media and information technology such as the internet is really levelling the playing ground in terms of access and allowing exchange of ideas and cross-pollination on levels unknown before. But this can also be said to be an 'external' event, although the spirit of the internet nowadays is egalitarian although it started in governemnt and academia. To sum up, I'd say no, 'aristocratic' societies do not necessarily produce greater art than 'egalitarian' ones. After all, great is what stands the test of time; how can we say that what is around us today is not great. Only our grandchildren would be able to tell us. For example look at the enduring popularity of The Beatles, of Elvis, of Queen (the revival among the young who are rediscovering Queen).. P.S. As for great buildings, I'd say that there are great architecturalprojects being undertaken nowadays, the new louvres, the sydney opera house, the KLCC... And remember, most of us have no idea what the houses of say Bill Gates and so on look like :) The 'aristocrats' in their society relied of force and a moat to protect themsleves from the rabble; today's 'new aristocrats' surround themsleves with huge private inaccessible residences and electronic protection too.