Why you don't care about inequality
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Dr Jonathan Mijs |
TEDxLondon
• May 2019
Not since the Great Depression of the 1930s, have we seen the level of inequality that is pervasive in our society today. So, why are we so willing to accept inequality as the status quo? Dr Jonathan Mijs is a sociologist researching our attitudes and beliefs about economic inequality. His research reveals a terrifying truth: the greater the spatial and social distance between the rich and poor the less we see and care about inequality. Yet, if equality is a goal we want to work towards, then it’s time to bridge this distance between the rich and the poor. It starts with crossing the social, class, and spatial borders that divide us.