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Poverty and Health
Inequality and Health and Social Outcomes
Chronic Stress, Inequality and Health
Social Divisions
Social Capital and Health
Happiness, Health and Kindness
Political Implications
The Politics of Ambivalence: Lessons from the US
“Attack with financial weapons”
“Fight social injustice”
“Tear down the barriers”Where is the language of kindness in here?
Reducing inequality is depicted almost universally as a battle.
If intelligent kindness is the solution, we need a new lexicon.
Kindness is personal; it is felt; experienced; there is a connection between the giver and receiver. If we rely on the state, the remote deduction of income via taxes, the algorithmic redistribution via anonymous institutions…we lose that. Connectedness seems key for the positive aspects to be felt by both, or even either, party.
So if intelligent kindness is to underpin social change, how do we integrate the personal element with the undeniably important role ‘the state’ has in coordinating our acts.
Good spot Rachel.
Do we frame this in terms of things to fight? Or things to seek?
So we might choose to fight inequalities or produce justice.
Personally I think we need to both undermine what is wrong and build what os right…
Some of us are motivated to fight – others to create… perhaps we can extend kinship to both and manage the impact of language on ourselves and others?
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