![]() Almost always, Japan and the Scandinavian countries are at the favourable "low" end, and almost always, the UK, the US and Portugal are at the unfavourable "high" end, with Canada, Australasia and continental European countries in between. On almost every index of quality of life, or wellness, or deprivation, there is a gradient showing a strong correlation between a country's level of economic inequality and its social outcomes. ![]() They use the information to create a series of scatter-graphs whose patterns look nearly identical, yet which document the prevalence of a vast range of social ills. ![]() He and Pickett have compiled information from around 200 different sets of data, using reputable sources such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the US Census, to form a bank of evidence against inequality that is impossible to deny. Wilkinson, a public health researcher of 30 years' standing, has written numerous books and articles on the physical and mental effects of social differentiation. ![]() Inequality causes shorter, unhealthier and unhappier lives it increases the rate of teenage pregnancy, violence, obesity, imprisonment and addiction it destroys relationships between individuals born in the same society but into different classes and its function as a driver of consumption depletes the planet's resources. The authors point out that the life-diminishing results of valuing growth above equality in rich societies can be seen all around us. ![]()
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