"...in more unequal countries (such as the UK and the US), compared with the least unequal ones (Norway, Finland and Japan). We’re more prone to chronic stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, unnecessary spending and ruinous gambling. Remarkably, people of lower status in hierarchies have higher levels in their blood of a clotting factor called fibrinogen, implying that their bodies are constantly on high alert to heal potential wounds. Advertisers, we learn, spend less money in more equal societies, such as Denmark, because their citizens are less motivated by status purchasing. In the most unequal societies, by contrast, people are more prone to 'a defensive, narcissistic presentation of self': we risk, it seems, creating a society of mini-Trumps all clawing at one another’s hairpieces.'"
~ Anna Johnston
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/20/the-inner-level-review
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