[MD] The Quality of Equality

[khaledsa]

I came across this article, thought I would share it.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/want-the-good-life-your-neighbors-ne
ed-it-too

I know that not all people are created equal, and some are followers
while others are leaders. It's a question of Stewardship by those who
happen to be on top. I did not say pity, social welfare, or being
blackmailed into doing good as to avoid retribution. Stewardship, as in
live and let live.

here is the beginnig of the article

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We live in a world of deep inequality, and the gap between the rich and
the poor is widening. We in the rich world generally agree that this is a
problem we ought to help fix—but that the real beneficiaries will be the
billions of people living in poverty. After all, inequality has little
impact on the lives of those who find themselves on top of the pile.
Right?
Not exactly, says British epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson.
For decades, Wilkinson has studied why some societies are healthier than
others. He found that what the healthiest societies have in common is not
that they have more—more income, more education, or more wealth—but that
what they have is more equitably shared.
In fact, it turns out that not only disease, but a whole host of social
problems ranging from mental illness to drug use are worse in unequal
societies. In his latest book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies
Almost Always Do Better, co-written with Kate Pickett, Wilkinson details
the pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust,
increasing anxiety and illness, encouraging excessive consumption.
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Khaled
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