Richard Wilkinson: The link between inequality and anxiety | TED

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Why are global levels of anxiety and depression so high? Social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson presents compelling data on the impact of inequality on mental health and social relationships in countries around the world. "Inequality," he says, "is the enemy between us."
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@angelic8632002 2 года назад

And the kicker is, we have known this for a very long time. The evidence just gets stronger every year, if anything. We live in a society made for economic progress. Not for people...

@chafikabdelmoujoud2149 2 года назад

True.

@IILDUDWEN 2 года назад

And with the rise of social media the sense of inequality in society intensified dramatically over the last decades

@angelic8632002 2 года назад

Now you compare yourself to the whole world(figuratively speaking)? Yea I can see that.

@IILDUDWEN 2 года назад

@@angelic8632002 There are lots of articles, literature and theories that thematize the link between social media and depression.

@Barbreck1 2 года назад

I don't agree with that sweeping generalisation. Social media is just a mirror to what is going on in society. It is a lens through which you can see your society and all of its ills. Social media is, after all, the creation of social engagement. So if the society is all at ease, the media it uses will display it. Social media itself is not the problem. The real problem in social media is the number of anonymous gas-lighters who seek to disrupt social engagement by driving wedges between its users.

@IILDUDWEN 2 года назад

@@Barbreck1 I didn't describe social media as the source of all problems, but as an intensifier. and it works as such basically because of what you said yourself: it is a lens through which you can see your society and all of its ills.

@Barbreck1 2 года назад

@@CaptainKirk01 Cheerio then!

@invox9490 2 года назад

I read somewhere that a shepperd in the middle-ages actually had MORE free time, better health (considering mental also) and even better income (relation time/money), than the average worker nowaday.

@user-ln6ne4xe9v 2 года назад

In my country, one's destiny is 87% decided by who his/her father is.

@Erdem_Beyblader 2 года назад

The rest %13 are very lucky then

@gabrielebolgioni9422 2 года назад

Not only in yours...

@DemetriPanici 2 года назад

*”There are more things that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Seneca*

@snowman4098 2 года назад

The stage "the world" You and me "the act" Be kind.

@heathermcdermott2171 2 года назад

Shakespeare said it The world is a stage men and women are merely actors playing a role in each one’s individual journey😇🙏 and indeed someone a thousand years before him said it 😉 SHALOM SHALOM NAMESTE LOVE ❤️ I’m praying 🙏 and sending POSITIVE THOUGHTS TO ALL reading this Thsnk you Tim for the reminder 😘 Holy kiss

@Strangepete 2 года назад

Having a job = Doing something for many hours a day whether you like or not (most do not) in order to be allowed to be alive by being granted access to a crude obsolete abstraction called 'money'. There is surely nothing stressful about being forced to work 10 hours a day at a miserable job with starvation on the streets as the only alternative. Sane acceptable society.

@44punisherable 2 года назад

Then find something you like doing in a good way for yourself and others

@Strangepete 2 года назад

@@CaptainKirk01 30.000 human beings starve to death every single day not due to actual scarcity at all but due to a lack of money, 8 richest people have more money than half the worlds population combined, a top sports star or TV actor "earns" in 1 week the same as a firefighter earns working full time for 40 years of life threatening service, many less developed countries have suicide nets on the side of their slave factories with people working 16 hours a day to be allowed to not be homeless but still be very poor while working all day in toxic loud unpleasant conditions - in order to not freeze and starve, so you can get a cheap deal in walmart after you've submitted to labor for your 8-10 hours. Working for your BOSS to pay rent to your LANDLORD or pay your mortgage DEBT as a free citizen living in a land based on liberty. Now with all that being said, you know you're right. I just need to check my entitled attitude and go and work hard and contribute to society and be productive and grateful that I live in this sane rational acceptable fair society which is totally legitimate and valid :)

@Strangepete 2 года назад

@@CaptainKirk01 Yeah like the computer or phone you're texting on and the roads that were built for you to walk or drive on or the clothes on your back or the house you live in or the technology and scientific methods and knowledge to make virtually everything about your current lifestyle possible which you did not earn or work for and were just born into and given though biological and geological chance. If you want to "earn what you get" you are fundamentally being utterly irrational in the face of reality. Look around you. Your town, your home, your clothes, your kitchen. Did you create from scratch this stuff? You didn't earn it. Or bring it about. You're just a free loader. You think you should just get to have refrigeration and modern transportation systems at your disposal by virtue of.... what? having been born on a patch of dirt called whatever country you live in that just so happens to have that?? no one on earth "earns" anything whatsoever. did Bill Gates or Elon Musk "earn" their money? Their weekly income could eradicate global poverty easily. Is it sane? Rational? Acceptable? Sure it is, merry Christmas. Enjoy your sane sensible society and working hard you admirable hard working adult. I applaud you for being such a good hard working citizen contributing to society.

@evygaspar Год назад

@@44punisherable that is not the point, and the poster isn't saying everyone hates their job. The fact remains that society is built around swapping work for living - you work, you pay rent, you work, you pay bills, you work, you get a mortgage, etc.

@HazzyWazzey Год назад

Tackling inequality and climate change needs be the top priorities for every governing body worldwide. If not, the majority are doomed.

@moohe8034 2 года назад

Great video. I’ve been being inferiority since my childhood,it’s really sad,

@wildedibles819 2 года назад

I find my anxiety really bad right now Im In the process of getting disability support Every meeting i have about this is the worst part of me Discussing this more and more is making my anxiety worse and thinking about it all the time

@Noukz37 2 года назад

If you are okay to talk to a complete stranger, please do contact me!

@wildedibles819 2 года назад

@@Noukz37 your sweet thanks I don't mind talking openly because others can read and possibly get help from it too Thanks

@Noukz37 2 года назад

@@wildedibles819 Even better then! Very brave and noble of you! :-) Talking more about these kinds of issues should be helpful, IF pointed in the right, positive direction, with some effort to finding solutions. Or maybe you should just try a different therapist. :-)

@wildedibles819 2 года назад

@@Noukz37 ya mine wont set up meetings been waiting a long time I have very supportive friends and i really try hard or at least point out what im trying to avoid I really want to get to the root of things but sometimes we are blind Admitting it when we see it helps to over come that

@MostlyLoveOfMusic 2 года назад

this was a strong video

@prasenna1 2 года назад

This video is an eye opener for me

@mariamshajahan4977 2 года назад

This is so true!

@mikebasil4832 2 года назад

Thank you, Richard, for your words and wisdom.

@frankdelahue9761 2 года назад

Violence is triggered by disrespect and humiliation, absolutely true!

@punnaroothsrimongkolsilp1543 2 года назад

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@greenLaVitameadows 2 года назад

Thank you !

@hachi9 2 года назад

This speaker's English is very understandable for me. Thanks TED.

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@Nhungtamhonbaybong 2 года назад

Nice!

@reemagulshaalikhan1235 2 года назад

It's so interesting to much

@zehrajafri9252 2 года назад

Inequality is death from unhappiness for everyone as well as the planet in the long run.

@user-tw9zq2tl9t 2 года назад

there is a difference between the sense of inequality that we may feel it it may be just a sort of an illusion, and the inequality that is a real situation in the human life that can be found in poverty and deprivation.. etc.

@karine568 Год назад

I agree, but our environment builds our mindset. so if you feel inadequate, it has a correlation with things around you. (nowadays you just need to have social media to start feeling inadequate)

@Ttelmis Год назад

It's like being told by the doctor that you are seriously ill. You ask him what you need to do to get better. He replies "Stop being ill". You ask "How?" and he answers "I don't know." In 1942 Beveridge came to the same conclusions as Wilkinson but at least Beveridge was working on a solution. It's time to get real, we are a competitive animal ...hence Sport: we compete to show who is best. It isn't an illness to be a loser ...there are more losers than winners. Either play because you love playing on move on to something else

@frankdelahue9761 2 года назад

I see people on social media happy and smiling, while I am serious and sad.

@karine568 Год назад

so give a break of social media, a lot of people say they feel better when they do it. I also do that at least once or twice a month

@sannaperkio1469 2 года назад

❤️❤️

@iversonmatthew 2 года назад

And here I thought it was about being born poor. The anxiety was from being denied healthcare six times in my life after being rear-ended in a car accident. Anxiety was made worse because people, like Republicans, in my country would scream at me to die because they shouldn't have to pay for me. Democrats just got all smug while telling me healthcare is a right but then demand to know how I am going to pay for it. Yeah, that's enough to cause anxiety and inequality IMO.

@macsmiffy2197 2 года назад

I’m privileged to live in the UK where healthcare is free at the point of need. It’s not perfect, constantly underfunded by all political parties when in power, but nevertheless, we don’t have to worry about whether we can afford to be ill or not. My heart goes out to you.

@dr.hsrtknt 2 года назад

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@eren.c13 2 года назад

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@camillac.s.279 2 года назад

Press the □ top right of the screen :-)

@dr.hsrtknt 2 года назад

@@camillac.s.279 sure I know already 😂😂😂 new videos need new subtitles 😅😉

@dr.hsrtknt 2 года назад

@@eren.c13 hellööö!:)

@eren.c13 2 года назад

hellö:)

@bryanbushman2943 2 года назад

In summary: Comparison is the theif of joy.

@ClayKicker Год назад

how has only got 54k views?

@solsang 2 года назад

The constant changing of zoom is really confusing, had to close my eyes to listen to the talk

@freedom-jp8zh 2 года назад

What makes these happen is that we are in life that's it

@jamesruscheinski8602 2 года назад

Substantive human rights equality

@ductuslupus87 2 года назад

0:25 Top left of picture: ...."Soon".

@ak.5620 2 года назад

Hi.

@CadillacJak 2 года назад

Try being dirt poor that's where all your anxiety comes from

@CadillacJak 2 года назад

@@Dimitris_Half inequality is so vague it means absolutely nothing we are all equal in America all your inequalities you have created yourself no one else has

@hxhxhx91 2 года назад

@@CadillacJak basically if you're dirt poor but everyone else is dirt poor too you don't really feel dirt pool. Wealth is relative and therefore based on inequality even.

@Mannaggialtubo 2 года назад

@@CadillacJak it's not vague at all. If I earn 500€ each month and another one is earning 5000€ per month you can measure that difference. That's inequality, you can measure it and predict anxiety with it more than with poverty. This is science, not opinions.

@Mannaggialtubo 2 года назад

@@CadillacJak Ok Paul, I don't talk with brainwashed people. Have fun with your beliefs :D

@CadillacJak 2 года назад

@@Mannaggialtubo wow how am I the brainwashed one when you refuse to even have a conversation you need to look in the mirror

@CC3GROUNDZERO 8 месяцев назад

57 thousand views as of November 2023, roughly two years after this was uploaded. Looks like yet another TED video conveniently hidden by some algorithms.

@homewall744 2 года назад

Aren't posed pictures with people you like, while the candid shot was unrelated people getting to work in a transit area?

@toni4729 2 года назад

Yes, even some of those people who are supposedly unaware they were being photographed were looking stait into the camera. They were simply going home and were busy getting to their destination. It didn't occur to our lecturer that we don't always grin our way home. He isn't smiling at the camera during his lecture.

@My2cents. 2 года назад

One is caught up playing the impassioned protagonist in one’s Subjective Narrative of Self 🎈

@GregLBishop 2 года назад

I haven't ever found that the solution to my depression or anxiety is for other people to change or society to change. There is and will always be inequality that I perceive - even if the inequality is because of a future I'm interested in that I don't currently experience. The key is my perception and relationship to that inequality. I find that focusing on gratitude and the positive gain toward a goal is what helps me maintain the right mindset toward this inequality. Not trying to remove the inequality itself.

@David_1789 2 года назад

I’m sure that feels good, but you’re wrong.

@Mannaggialtubo 2 года назад

It's like saying that wearing safety belt is useless because people should be aware lol

@GaasubaMeskhenet 2 года назад

it's not a bug. it's a feature. the rich governing class doesn't care how many of us suffer or die

@brendanwhite1830 2 года назад

People have much larger stresses in life than being compared to a rich person

@toni4729 2 года назад

I like hearing from the contended. Well said. We're not all dreaming of being Trumps.

@crustycupcake110 2 года назад

I just got done reading Richard's work. While I would "mostly" agree that the methodologies being used are producing causality in the effects, I am not convinced of causal direction. The lecturer argues inequality ---> mental illness, but can it not also be mental illness ---> inequality? There still seems to be an endogenous problem in the form a feedback loop at the minimum. While his work his interesting the pedigree of his work is pretty laughable. These kinds of analyses would not fly in economic journals.

@karine568 Год назад

I think inequality could be a disorder, because once you start feeling it, the thing just get worse if you don't try to change the situation

@homewall744 2 года назад

Inequality exists in all times and places. Envy is the human emotion he's talking about that create anxiety because you started out with a broken mental model, wanting what others have for yourself, making you think you'd either steal it or use "democracy" to steal it as a mob.

@SeanLumly 2 года назад

What are you on about? Nearly 40M US citizens live below the poverty line and this exists increasingly in the west.. Try teetering on the boundary of living on the streets or out of your car -- and all that it implies -- and then tell me that it doesn't make you worry. I think your argument is formed on the title of the video, and you're missing the point wildly. Try watching the video.

@David_1789 2 года назад

We could actually tax people and businesses to start…

@Mannaggialtubo 2 года назад

False, inequality didn't exist before agriculture, for most of history human were egualitarian hunter gatherers. Learn anthropology and history before talking. Study before talking.

@tahah.babikir7698 2 года назад

We need better social connections, use psychology for something beneficial for once…

@DemetriPanici 2 года назад

*"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." - Marcus Aurelius*

@redman_10t39 2 года назад

This video makes me think about how Republicans often view Californian people as narcissistic. My thoughts are anecdotal at best, but after hearing some of the information in the video, it's made me think more about why Republicans have this view. Republicans tend to live in rural areas where most people are close both socially and economically and as such don't feel like there is inequality. Furthermore, Republicans heavily subscribe to the notion that all wealth is rightfully earned, and if they want more wealth they just need to work for it. As opposed to Republicans, many Californians live in areas where there are greater disparities in wealth and have increased access to social media, this makes them more keenly aware of inequality. If you compound this with Californians being far more aware of the long-term and widespread issues that make it so hard to escape inequality, it's natural to see why Republicans view Californians as so much more narcissistic than themselves.

@aaronwilson1666 2 года назад

So many things wrong with this. For starters, when did Californians become a political party?

@redman_10t39 2 года назад

@@aaronwilson1666 I'm not calling California a political party, although I can see why you would think that based on how I structured my comment. I mostly chose California as it is frequently bemoaned by Republicans to be everything wrong with America, similar to how many Democrats bemoan the South or single out Texas to be everything wrong with America.

@aaronwilson1666 2 года назад

@@Dimitris_Half that is exactly my point...

@harishravishankar 2 года назад

Had a good time. Don't care

@motivationbaychannel6891 2 года назад

ALWAYS believe that good things are about to happen. By being open to new possibilities you are inviting abundance into your life.

@christiansoldier1547 2 года назад

inequities ? your only worth what your worth. deal with it , we all do.

@nikhilbuch5934 2 года назад

Increasing spirituality results in reduced stress & anxiety

@totalfreedom45 2 года назад

_Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth._ -Gautama Buddha *_1_* What is *_the self_* (the ego)? It is a bundle of memories in an empty shell, the twisted product of our evolutionary animal heritage where self-preservation is essential for survival: all animals pursue pleasure, avoid pain, and avoid being killed by another animal owing to the instinct of self-preservation. *_We all_* have that unnecessary product reinforced by heavy societal conditioning except for one known case-Gautama Buddha. The self has created beliefs like soul, spirit, God, the hereafter, and so on. *_2_* Buddha was uninterested in a Supreme Being. At 35 he realized that the *most* important thing in life is to end psychological suffering, which is caused by the self. 💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌

@zenshaikh66 2 года назад

like button

@toni4729 2 года назад

74% of Londoners are not about to kill their neighbours as you seem to suggest.

@dewipuspitasari6990 2 года назад

I can't believe that I'm the first one

@AyushSingh-be2nm 2 года назад

First view

@NatureVideo___ 2 года назад

Congrats Elon 😄

@TinVoid 2 года назад

Inequality has been a constant among human history it's not something new, and by consequence anxiety is a natural human reaction, not knowing if you can meet your basic needs. We need people to be able to make money, to get freedom of business. Venezuela and Africa are super equal, equally poor, and it bet you they live in constant anxiety.

@cindywa2721 2 года назад

No true. First off, Africa is not a country ,like Venezuela; AND both Venezuela and some countries in Africa have an very uneven division of power/money. More of those countries do not have a middle class. South Africa for an example, has 98% of it's wealth goes to the less than 1% (all White people). While parts of the country doesn't even have running water. My point here is that there's one reason to have a natural inequality due to country and location in the world, but there another reason to have inequality for the sole purpose of one group of people trying to hang on to the power they have. A good example would be the South African whites.

@TinVoid 2 года назад

@@cindywa2721 first, yep you are right about what I said about Africa my bad. Now you actually are saying I'm right, you are telling me that 98% percent of people are in the same situation, that is my point all of those people are equally poor and that's no better, besides there is no chance that taking the money from that 1% is gonna fix all the other 98% peoples lives it's impossible. I must agree on the thing about groups of power, my view on that is there is always gonna be someone or some group trying to get the hang of power, that is why I think focus should be made in why that is happening (for example: government regulations that favor monopolies)

@Mannaggialtubo 2 года назад

False, inequality didn't exist before agriculture, for most of history human were egualitarian hunter gatherers. Learn anthropology and history before talking. Study before talking.

@TinVoid 2 года назад

@@Mannaggialtubo Actually you are also giving me the reason before agriculture we were all equally poor. We were equalitarian in not having any savings, any investments, in surviving by the day. There was no growth because we couldn't think ahead of the day. And please if you want to say you think I am wrong just say that or give me a link to your sources. Maintain respect on the exchange of ideas, if not I'm not interested.

@Mannaggialtubo 2 года назад

@@TinVoid Also false. Hunter gatherers worked less than first agriculturalist societies, they had more food and lived longer. Sources: any anthropology book, I think you can find this even on Wikipedia, is anthropology 101. Or read guns germ and steel by Diamond a very famous anthropology book. I know your next question will be: if living as hunter gatherer was so much better why we became all agricultural/pastoralist society in the end? Well the answer to this is very long, basically Germs, guns and steel try to answer this question. You can read it if you want more info on this. But keep in mind: inequality is not a part of human nature. It is actually pretty recent, and has done no good to the people.

@jimbean2518 2 года назад

You should look into the link between TED and race baiting.

@willpoweriseverything1478 2 года назад

change your youtube profile picture to the dislike button we want the dislike option back nobody asked for thiss

@ST-dd6zz 2 года назад

Would communism help?

@timothywiebe4714 2 года назад

No 2 people ARE equal. So the reduction of inequality for inequalitie’s sake is a zero sum

@timothywiebe4714 2 года назад

@@Dimitris_Half Equal Rights. Now you’re talkin’

@Mannaggialtubo 2 года назад

If I earn 5000€ each month and you earn 500€ we are not equal. Even in the jungle if one have a stone and another one hasn't they aren't equal. Cmon man you are better than this

@timothywiebe4714 2 года назад

@@Mannaggialtubo Not sure what you’re talking about? How about you give me 2250€ - and we’ll call it even?

@Mannaggialtubo 2 года назад

@@timothywiebe4714 you don't understand. It's not responsabilità of the rich to give to the poor. It doesn't work that way. We should live in a world without rich and poor.

@maxwelldillon4805 2 года назад

Oh no no no, the republicans won't like this one.

@toni4729 2 года назад

Why do you make it political? People make their own destiny.

@susanc257 2 года назад

@@toni4729 …. With Capitalist Republicans the poor and disadvantaged will always struggle. The working poor will never get ahead no matter how many extra jobs they have.

@toni4729 2 года назад

@@susanc257 Then change your policy.

@susanc257 2 года назад

@@toni4729 … WOW.