Richard Wilkinson: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
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GRC54
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The rich and shameless want more for themselves and less for everyone else.
A 2 tiered economy or just rich and poor never worked in the whole written history of this planet.
It all boils down to money and power. More money, more power - 7 months ago
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GRC54
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WakeUpPeople
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It only makes sense that a healthy society has a healthy distribution of wealth. If too much wealth is precariously concentrated at the top, the foundation will not be able to support it and it will topple over.
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." ~Adam Smith (father of Capitalism)
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kennymotown
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The Revolution is about to change it!
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kennymotown
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kvb1
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17 minutes of why the American Dream can be achieved in other countries, but is merely a myth here. Income disparity, causes more problems and has less social mobility than societies that have industrial societies that have closer income equality. Yet it makes no difference how that income equality is achieved, whether through taxation or a smaller spread in income directly.
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