The way we live now
A hard-hitting study of the social effects of inequality has profound implications, says Lynsey Hanley
Lynsey Hanley
Sat 14 Mar 2009
We are rich enough. Economic growth has done as much as it can to improve material conditions in the developed countries, and in some cases appears to be damaging health. If Britain were instead to concentrate on making its citizens' incomes as equal as those of people in Japan and Scandinavia, we could each have seven extra weeks' holiday a year, we would be thinner, we would each live a year or so longer, and we'd trust each other more.
