Nicholas Kristof's Equality, A True Soul Food

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In the featured article “Equality, a True Soul Food” the author, Nicholas Kristof, discusses problems that social inequality causes. Whilst the discussion he gives evidences from different sources to back up his argument and then comes to the conclusion. The main idea of the text is that huge inequality leads to mental and physical problems. First point that supports this opinion comes from the book “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger.”, which was written by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. There is a debate between them about the issue. The outcome of their argument is that human is socially dependent organism. In addition, author shows examples of researches about primates. There is similarity between people

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