The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Wellbeing - Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Audiobook
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Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality.
In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debate by showing conclusively that less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how inequality affects us individually, how it alters how we think, feel and behave.
It sets out the overwhelming evidence that material inequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to define and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority. A deep well of data and analysis is drawn upon to empirically show, for example, that low social status is associated with elevated levels of stress, and how rates of anxiety and depression are intimately related to the inequality which makes that status paramount.
Wilkinson and Pickett describe how these responses to hierarchies evolved, and why the impacts of inequality on us are so severe. In doing so, they challenge the conception that humans are innately competitive and self-interested. They undermine, too, the idea that inequality is the product of ‘natural’ differences in individual ability.
This audiobook sheds new light on many of the most urgent problems facing societies today, but it is not just an index of our ills. It demonstrates that societies based on fundamental equalities, sharing and reciprocity generate much higher levels of well-being, and lays out the path towards them.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 3/5
January 26th, 2019
Here we go again Jean-Jacques Rousseau for the 21st century; or Postmodernism from Rousseau to Foucault to Wilkinson and Pickett! Or, if you can’t convince the masses, confuse them.
January 27th, 2019
You mean like the paradise that is Venezuela?
January 27th, 2019
Why do these people think the are entitled to others stuff?
January 27th, 2019
Those who point at Venezuela completely ignore the progress socialism has enabled in Europe in general and in Scandinavian countries in particular. At the same time they conveniently ignore the failure of capitalism in most of the so-called “Sh!t-hole countries”. Our best decades (1950 and 1960s) were the decades of high taxation and strong labour unions. Without effective taxation and strong unions we are where we are now. Neoliberalism is the death-throe of capitalism. We need mixed economy with strong government to control the corporate sector. China is consistently achieving 6% growth year on year in a controlled, regulated economy where they put corrupt bankers in jail. We put them in Congress and the Parliament.
February 3rd, 2019
synopsis quotes:
1. “…showing conclusively that less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from education to life expectancy”
2. “…the answer to all these hinges on inequality”
to which I say:
1. YES, more equal societies are undoubtedly better.
2. More equal societies are the product of MYRIAD different things, not least of them societal TRUST which prevails in racially and culturally homogeneous societies (because you just know that Scandinavia is going to get invoked a lot here)
3. History has shown us that all socially engineered (as opposed to naturally evolved) attempts at creating equal societies have failed and resulted in misery and tyranny.
4. This book’s premise seems a textbook case of confusing causality with correlation; The equality is but another symptom, and not the cause, of a healthy society. All the other phenomena (education, life expectancy etc.) supposedly improved by equality, are in fact better in equal societies for the same reasons that gave rise to increased equality in the first place.
5. Any book advocating monocausality for such complex societal phenomena, should be discounted as a serious authority on the subject.
December 26th, 2022
Seed please!
December 31st, 2025
Can anyone seed Please?
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