Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.
Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.
Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.
Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
