An impressive, useful and enduring myth, especially amongst free-marketeers and singularitarians (incredibly) is that inequality is earned by those who suffer its ill-effects, that it only serves to encourage them to strive to be one of the mathematically necessarily smaller subset of 1 percenters and that these be the only effects - any other psychosocial problems are to be earmarked as the fault of the sufferer and ultimately ascribed to an ever-more diffuse human nature. Even worse, the claim persists that the proliferation of mobile phones, wide-screen TVs and other modern accoutrements available at cheaper and cheaper prices somehow hails the closing gap between rich and poor. It is nothing of the sort. In this talk by Jason Lord, the deeper ailments of a divisive social system are laid bare for what they are when viewed through the lens of broader public health. youtu.be/IGdrGMB0aqU
Posted on: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:21:51 +0000
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