Sadly many politicians are against the very premise of their work from the get go. Right wing politicians would dismiss it as lefty propaganda and insist anyone trying to make even our extremely unequal society slightly more equal is a 'Marxist'
They know it very well. The actual western elites (and the politicians who work for them) WANTED precisely to widen inequalities, to transfer social power from the people to themselves. It's not a matter of (only) knowledge, but a matter of political struggle, and nowadays the (true) western left is not able to mobilize the masses as in the past. BTW the data and analysis like this one are precious.
10:30 “USA, at top right, most unequal of these countries with worst performance on all those kind of outcomes.” ~Richard Wilkinson I think alot of people in the US have no idea how poorly we do compared to other developed countries.
Equality spells liberty. After having watched this interesting video I think we should regard equality as a social space to interact with each other - what Richard has shown. It seems contradictory but, Kate mentions that in the very end, equality is creating diversity.
