Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies (TED)



Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
(h/t Dan Lynch in the comments)

Wild! The US is off the charts — in the wrong way.
"If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark."
"General social dysfunction is related proportionately to inequality." 
The data is rather shocking. But the causality involved, which Wilkinson elaborares at the end, is encouraging. Inequality is not only correlated with social and psychological dysfunction, it is found to be a cause of it.

Decreasing inequality within a group improves social and psychological functioning. This provides a strong argument for adopting progressive social, political and economic principles for achieving the good society.

2 comments:

Nobody said...

If you want to do some checking on the data involved, where it came from and the methodology...
The Equality Trust

Tom Hickey said...

Thanks, nobody. I added it to my feed.