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Social Conditions and Inequality Affect Well-Being

Social Conditions and Inequality Affect Well-Being

  • Recent studies have shown that events and forces at work today are making happiness less likely for many people, and widening "happiness gaps" between the most privileged and everyone else.
  • People who study happiness and promote ways to get more of it keep emphasizing the same cluster of individual-level tips and tools.
  • There's something dishonest in minimizing the role of social forces-and that this dishonestly can be rooted in discounting the experiences of people who are hurt or marginalized by those forces.

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