If Gini is the best indicator of income equality, and if income equality is the key ingredient for a social utopia, then why is it the Danes, the southernmost members of the Nordic clan, the ones with the highest taxes, the most meager natural resources, the worst health, the most ignoble history, the very worst pop music, and the weakest economy, who are so regularly held to be the happiest people in the world, and not the more equal and, by most parameters, the much more successful Swedes? I wondered what to make of this, so I rang Richard Wilkinson. “Well, my answer is going to be a little
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