It should be self-evident that something is wrong when a society is so unequal as to teach some of its members that life consists of menace and that they are fundamentally helpless; it should be self-evident that something is wrong when a society is so unequal as to teach some of its members that life consists in menace and that they are fundamentally helpless; the incidences of anxiety and depression soar among the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder.

Robert Sapolsky