Income inequality hurts everyone

You've gotta watched this TED Talk by Richard Wilkinson, author of "The Spirit Level". It's not that he's a great speaker: he's just got an incredibly important point to make about how income inequality within a state causes health and social problems for everyone... and he has the data to prove it.



He doesn't shy away from the fact that Singapore is THE most unequal nation in terms of income in the world:


But unfortunately he doesn't have a lot of data to graph us. We definitely don't do well on the percentage of population incarcerated, though.



I've gotta buy this book.