Effects of inequality go beyond economics | Letters
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Social divisions cause stress, anxiety and doubts about self-worth, write Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett and Wanda Wyporska, while Nicholas Falk believes housing wealth is at the root of the problem
We welcome Richard Partington's article (How inequality is growing worldwide, Journal, 9 September). The sense of being "left behind" contributes, as he says, to political polarisation - but that is a symptom of the many wider effects of inequality which research since the 1970s has established.
Most fundamentally, inequality is socially divisive, making status more important and strengthening the view that some people are worth more than others.
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