Aye Write Festival: Richard Wilkinson

Large income inequalities have often been regarded as divisive and corrosive.  Wilkinson and Pickett’s groundbreaking work The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for the well-off as well as the poor as almost every modern social and environmental problem - ill-health, lack of community life, violence, drugs, obesity, mental illness, long working hours, big prison populations - is more likely to occur. Shifting from self-interested ‘consumerism’ to a friendlier and more collaborative society, and finding a solution to the social and environmental problems which beset us is key to improving the real quality of life for everyone.

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