This is John Bachelor, conversation with two professors from the United Kingdom,

Roger Wilkinson,

Emeritus in Visiting Professor of Social Epidemiology,

at a variety of Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, at the

University of Nottingham at Northumbria University at University College London, and

his colleague Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology at the Department of Health Sciences at York

University, speaking about income inequality that has accelerated, especially in the

United States since 1980.

And what is to be done because there is evidence that income inequality, extreme versions,

drives what are called stressors on the population that leads to homelessness, violence,

despair, psychological difficulties, families broken, the homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, drug

addiction, income inequality has a correlation to that and exaggerated

versions such as the United States, which was in the

middle of the pack in 1980 and then where we are today.

The professor has a recommendation about what is not just taxes. It has to do with a sense of common sense when you

start the company and the professor speaks to the multiples of

salaries that executives earn compared to the people who work for him or her or work with him and her and create the product.

Here is Professor Wilkinson commenting on what is to be done about what is relatively a recent phenomenon 40 years old, income

inequality in the developed nations, the US and its allies? We have to reduce inequalities both in income and wealth.

They both matter.

And really this problem has run away with us since about the late 1970s or 1980.

Our societies have changed and become more antisocial.

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