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income inequality kills happiness

Submitted by John Krumm on February 19, 2008 - 08:20.

Probably the single biggest killer of happiness is income inequality in society. Happiness is very closely tied to your sense of status among those around you, and in modern societies status mostly comes from income (though partly from education, but try being a homeless phd for a while and see how much status society allots you). Societies like the U.S. are increasingly high stress/low happiness places, while the Danish and their like and also some very isolated tribal peoples are often much happier.

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