1/2: #IGini coefficient: Extreme inequality between the 1% of the superrich and the 99% of the rest drives cultural self-destruction such as addiction, homelessness and broad antisocial conduct. Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Nature Magazine.
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1/2: #IGini coefficient: Extreme inequality between the 1% of the superrich and the 99% of the rest drives cultural self-destruction such as addiction, homelessness and broad antisocial conduct. Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Nature Magazine.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:05.0 | CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:09.0 | unequal outcomes. |
| 0:10.0 | That is one way of talking about the disparity between those among us who are very rich and the rest. |
| 0:19.0 | I learned from two professors writing most recently in Nature magazine that is the |
| 0:23.8 | peer-reviewed top of the pile in Europe of science and science reporting. |
| 0:28.3 | Professor Roger Wilkinson, Emeritus and visiting professor of a social epidemiology at the Department of Health Sciences, |
| 0:36.7 | University of York, University of Nottingham, Northumbria University and University College London and Professor Kate Pickett Professor |
| 0:46.0 | for Epidemiology at the Department of Health and Sciences at the |
| 0:49.4 | University of York that never have we seen such unequal outcomes and disparity between |
| 0:56.3 | incomes as we do now here in the 21st century with the internet with artificial |
| 1:02.1 | intelligence coming online. |
| 1:04.0 | However, there is a remedy. |
| 1:06.7 | First we come to the problem. |
| 1:08.1 | Professor Wilkinson, I begin with you because social epidemiology, I'm not familiar entirely. I believe it has to do with the fact |
| 1:17.1 | that you can compare and contrast the different nations, different sovereign states, different groups with each other. |
| 1:26.0 | What do you learn in putting that all these countries together? |
| 1:30.6 | What do you learn that is surprising to you after all these years professor good evening to you? |
| 1:36.0 | Well of course most of the studies of people's health are individual studies. |
| 1:42.0 | So you learn about their characteristics and how they |
| 1:46.2 | affect health, smoking and diet and so on. But it's what we've concentrated on are international comparisons looking at the |
| 1:56.8 | influences of whole societies on health. I sometimes think of it as factors in a society which make everyone less healthy, make |
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