Quote Originally Posted by Aaron View Post
I am a bit slow and that went over my head. Google Spirit Level might be good if you are a tradie and not sure what links to follow.
Googling 'the spirit level' Will take you to a number of books and articles describing research on inequality and happiness . Both of these have been studied independently. The Spirit Level investigated the reloation between them.

The correlations are astoundingly high, both across developed countries, and across states in the USA. The more inequality, the less happiness and the worse the social statistics across health, education, crime, teenage pregnancy, family violence - whatever.

In more unequal societies everyone is worse off (even those on the top of the heap)