'Being rich from genuine enterprise' - maybe but think of the millions who do very hard work and don't get rich. Is it the sign of a balanced society if 1% of the population own 45% of the wealth?
https://www.cadtm.org/1-own-45-of-the-world-s-personal-wealth-while-near...
The work of Wilkinson and Pickett https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/sep/18/kate-pickett-richard-...
shows that inequality of the degree present in many countries around the world (especially USA and UK) is bad for everyone, and affects their health adversely.
Shouldn't we be aiming for a society where there are neither super rich nor super poor?
Tony Waterston
_CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
