Full Idea
As things are, democracy is the enemy of comprehensive equality, once the poor cease to be a majority.
Gist of Idea
Democracy is opposed to equality, if the poor are not a majority
Source
Thomas Nagel (Equality and Partiality [1991], Ch.9)
Book Reference
Nagel,Thomas: 'Equality and Partiality' [OUP 1995], p.89
A Reaction
This is obvious once you think about it, but it is well worth saying, because it is tempting to think that we live in an 'equal' society, merely because we are equal in things such as voting rights and equality before the law.