Unequal Unhealthy

Inequality seems to make a society dysfunctional across a wide range of outcomes. Among the richest twenty or thirty countries the USA, the UK, and Portugal seem to be the least healthy and the most unequal. Japan and the Scandinavian countries have the most healthy people and the most equal.

Most of the important health and social problems of the rich world are more common in the more unequal societies. The difference between more and less equal societies are large. Problems are often three to ten times as common in the more unequal countries. The problems are common to the whole spectrum of the people in those societies. The problems apply to the whole population.

Right Here and Right Now

~ I plan to profit from being an expert right here and right now.
~ I intend intend to express myself as fully as is appropriate right here and right now.
~ I am ready to learn to dwell on a healthy desire of mine right here and right now.
~ I am ready to learn to be aware of the potential for reward in my behavior right here and right now.
~ I accept the reality of my decisiveness today.
~ I choose to think beautiful thoughts right here and right now.
~ I choose to think a constructive thought right here and right now.
~ I choose to think a thought of courage right here and right now.
~ I plan to think a beautiful and constructive thought right here and right now.
~ I plan to think a thought of self-reliance right here and right now.
~ I choose to decide to do a beautiful and constructive thing with courage and self-reliance right here and right now.
~ I am ready to learn to set a worthy goal right here and right now.