Sunday, 24 December 2023

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; the incidences of anxiety and depression soar among the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder.

Robert Sapolsky

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