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Society => Income inequality => Topic started by: K-Dog on Jan 24, 2024, 11:05 AM

Title: Richard Wilkinson
Post by: K-Dog on Jan 24, 2024, 11:05 AM
Richard has been a hero of mine for years.  I do not have many heros.

He wrote Poverty and progress: An ecological model of economic development which I have read.  I have also read The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger which he co-wrote with Kate Picket who is now his wife.

QuoteGroundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it.

This is the science.  It can't be honestly denied.  Zack and the team made a great program.  The content of this video is 100%


At 40 minutes in you will hear Richard talk serious K-Dog.  The only way to address the polycrisis in any reasonable way is to eat the rich.  Our consuming status seeking bullies must be stopped.

* James Gilligan is mentioned. (https://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/gilligan-violence)

I seriously cannot find anything I disagree with in what Richard said.  At all.  Richard's books were behind my motivation to do all this.  I love the rant at 1:11.

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.9eehSG0hah1pVGfnbWTjEQHaFS%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=ee219106a42c26967c18f434179c7007fc8ff8be8728b2cd39560d3ce5218506&ipo=images)

I admire his quiet fire.