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naturally with greater equality people are less caring of one
in fact mistrust of inequality i think reinforce
this point is probably enough for one hour lecture itself
uh... what is the society if people cannot trust each other
is it's important to realize that
that idea friendship in the notions that
couple in the friendship
ultimately a quality trust
is a characteristic
completely opposed
to the competition mentality
and the economic theories of self-interest we see today
as he was a proficient in cooperation equates to good health
lol suspicion
competition always
equates to high levels of stress and hence destruction
we'll talk about the second stress
is one of the deadliest killers that would know
secret code
and living in a society where you have to look over your shoulder
and we have to fight for everything that you have
we have to question virtually
every transaction given the initial sumption assumption that the person might be trying
to pull one over on you for their own betterment
the fact of the matter is that we thrive socially on trust and cooperation probably buy health
standards
and social structures which create relationships based on inequality
period worried in social exclusion
or inflicted with the greatest deal of social pain and the roses
let's move on to educational scores
this was very interesting not only do more in equal countries that have worse educational
attainment
kids are more likely to drop out of school as well
interestingly class distinctions america fact have become very obvious in this regard
for example the study was done in two thousand four
where they took three turned twenty one
high caste indian boys
and put them with three hundred and twenty one look at it in the invoice
and they were given the task of solving a certain problems
the first time i did this
the cast relationship the social status but was not announce to these children
they had no idea who was around them
and you can see the cason announced low cass actually beat the high kids
the second time they did it was also dramatically skewed
as the lower caste of what works that before
while the higher cast it better
this is psychological it's a psychosocial inferiority superiority relationship that
has been repeated many times in many cases
but their other studies which has the exact same consequence
people are greatly affected by their perceived status in society
where we expect to be viewed as inferior
very often we perform such
homicide rates
as you can see
the united states
blows everything out of water when it comes the homicide rates
and obviously if you look at their aggression transit homicide or a certain that naturally
more common in unequal societies in fact violence it's off
is probably the most established attributes
uh... social inequality
over any of the things that uh... we're talking about annie's example
james gilligan
who i was the social issues me a prison psychiatrist for twenty five years and is currently
director for the center for study of violence at harvard university hats this to say about
his experience
dealing with violent criminals expensive like that he has
the prison inmates i work with have told me repeatedly when i asked them why they have
assaulted someone
but it was because he disrespected me
the word disrespect is central in the vocabulary moral value system and psychodynamic studies
chronically violent man
i've yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked
i_d_ experience of feeling shamed and humiliated disrespected in ridiculed
and did not represent an attempt to prevent or until this loss of face no matter how severe
the department
for we miss understand these men and our peril if we do not realize they mean it literally
when they say they would rather killer mutilate others peekskill their lives without pride
dignity
and self-respect
they literally preferred to have to do so on
it's really easy to see how class relationships and hence income inequality can translate
in the feelings of humiliation
loss of control
disrespected ridicule
you know some of those is their job it's often demoralizing to sell my husband's unemployed
and that's is demoralizing noise unemployed
after all the very nature of classes hierarchical
in other words the upper class really looks down upon the lower classes to work exp
and if you look down upon
is essentially emily
therefore should be no surprise all united states largest number of homicides in the
world given its extreme income inequality
and this leads us to rates of imprisonment
trend is
very cute as well
obviously as you can see imprisonment rates are much higher in article countries
the more unequal country to more people in prison
however what is interesting about this reality is that it doesn't just relate to rates of
crime which of course
uh... is more prevalent in army societies
but it also has to do with the punitive attitudes toward the so-called criminal elements of
society
in other words the more unequal deciding
the harsher the punishments are
four given the facts
financed more people were put into prison for longer periods of time than they are and
more people countries
since nineteen eighty four the state of california has build one new school
and twenty new prisons
evidence out
dr those out there who think uh...
the prison system might serve some therapeutic rehabilitation role
in a modification of human beings in human behavior i'd like to refer back once again
to our prison
a psychiatrist james gilligan for his perspective
he states the most effective way to turn the non-violent person into a violent one is to
send him to prison
the criminal justice and penal system seven operating under a huge mistake namely the
belief that punishment will deter prevent or inhibit violence
when in fact it is the most powerful stimulant of violence we have yet to scrub
here's a very interesting one social mobility
social mobility has to do with
the class relationship that you have upon your birth
and how easy it is it for you to move up out of that class or probable lowered my class
uh... during your life
now the words if you're born into poverty how much of a possibility do you have to become
wealthy
well as you can see by the chart the united states
a home of the american dream
has the lowest mobility rate
about all the countries in the samples that
there are very high odds that if you were born into poverty you'll stay poverty
likewise if you were born in the great wealth
you will stay wealthy most likely to this light
if you think about it it's really a form of class
segregation
this reality can be blamed in part on the very mechanisms of our financial system
which keeps the lower classes for in the upper classes mission deliberately
as a quick example of this i've stated before but i think it's very important example
if you have one million dollars in you put it into a cd ed begley five percent interest
you're going to generate
fifty thousand dollars a year
simply for that deposit
you are making money off of money itself paper made on paper nothing more no one mentioned
no contribution to society not
that being denoted
if you are a lower to middle-class person whose limited funds
which must have an interest they slow like most people to buy their home
or use credit cards
that you are paying interest
to the bank
which the bank is then using need theory
to pay the person's returned with a five percent cd
not only is this beijing outrageously offensive due to the use of interest to steal from the
poor and give to the rich but it also perpetuates classes strata stratification by today redesign
keeping a lower classes before
under the constant burden of debt while keeping the upper class is rich
with the means to turn excess money magically in the more money
with zero labor social contribution
this is only one mechanism by the way
which is used to make sure
these class action beans
or class segregation
is maintain
infant mortality
very simply
higher more high excuse me in on equal countries then blasphemy conscience
obesity
naturally
hire him
more unequal countries
teenage birth rates
higher in more unequal countries
innovation i'd love this one
because the total slap in the face to all of those party-line toting market busiest
you seem to think that the competitive base incentive system of seeking profit
translates into doing patients for the common good saree said
that is in the case with them
using a measure of patents for million finland sweden in ireland trump the united states
when it comes to the bench
and finally
let's take a look that's a haggerty estimation that was compiled
of the many points we've just examine
distractions life expectancy math literacy into mortality homicides of president gave
birth trust of ec mental illness drugs alcohol use the social ability
as you can see
in the united states of the highest level of stratification
we are the absolute worst
and just to make sure you understand this analysis clearly
okay
here's a chart showing absolute income of the same thing you just saw
as you can tell there is no pattern
there is no trend regression line
here they are side by side so you can see how viable disinformation yes
trend is very clear
about the ramifications of inequality
they give the country
or social bar
as a final point on this topic with the quality and its consequences i want to bring up a
study called the whitehall study which isn't too browns one and two stretched over a bit
about sixty seventy years
professor michael moore months of the department of epidemiology and public health at the university
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