The Broken Ladder How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die - Keith Payne
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Capitalism
Centrism
Centrist-politics
Conservatism
Economics
Failed-system
Finance
Inquality
Neoliberalism
Sociology
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A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality.
Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder, psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but also has profound consequences for how we think, how our cardiovascular systems respond to stress, how our immune systems function, and how we view moral ideas such as justice and fairness.
Experiments in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics have not only revealed important new insights on how inequality changes people in predictable ways, but have also provided a corrective to our flawed way of viewing poverty as the result of individual character failings. Among modern developed societies, economic inequality is not primarily about money, but rather about relative status: where we stand in relation to other people. Regardless of their average income, countries or states with greater levels of income inequality have much higher rates of all the social problems we associate with poverty, including lower average life expectancies, serious health issues, mental illness, and crime.
The Broken Ladder explores such issues as why women in poor societies often have more children, and have them younger; why there is little trust among the working class that investing for the future will pay off; why people’s perception of their relative social status affects their political beliefs, and why growing inequality leads to greater political divisions; how poverty raises stress levels in the same way as a physical threat; inequality in the workplace and how it affects performance; why unequal societies become more religious; and finally offers measures people can take to lessen the harm done by inequality in their own lives and the lives of their children.
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 4.8/5
April 27th, 2021
Thank you !
April 27th, 2021
This is all speculation because they do not have any examples of a society without inequality to compare against
April 27th, 2021
ICM, they need not have untainted exemplars to validate blaring differences; extremes at either point of this continuum are disparate enough to give weight to much of what is concluded here.
April 27th, 2021
If “inequality” leads to all these ills of society, has anyone visualized what it would be like if we were all “equal?” This could be Mr. Pain’s (excuse me Mr. Payne’s) next project.
April 27th, 2021
I don’t think anyone can doubt that inequality can have negative societal effects. The thing is, inequality is unavoidable without top down control of the economy, i.e., if people are free to do as they please, buy what they want, and work at various jobs that people value differently. The only way to prevent this would be redistribution, which in excess has it’s own negative societal effects.
Of course, we do have excessive inequality in the the present moment, no doubt. But there is no promised land, no perfect state… it’s something that must constantly be fiddled with, like the temperature of bath water.
April 27th, 2021
Huge problem. The elites refuse to even acknowledge there is a problem, lol, which is why I am confident it will never be addressed. They seem content to go down with the ship on this issue. The ship will eventually go down, like its done many times before.
April 28th, 2021
…and then resurface? In a re-emergent kinda way?
April 29th, 2021
Show me equality and then I’ll consider this book.
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