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It’s not really a position. It’s something research has found. It has also found that when there is less income disparity there is less conflict. I think both have been sufficiently researched to be accepted by science. They don’t really contradict each other. “ I feel rich when I have more”, doesn’t really contradict “everyone here basically has the same so we worry about other things,”

The point is really what a person believes individually is very different from the dynamics of a society. As much as I’d like change people to be the way I’d like, I have to take the society as it is. But if we’re talking about ideas, we can look at different places and see cause and effect of policies and cultures, etc and have opinions on what is better.

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So, you think people's perception of their peers matters and that it is not about everyone being peers. There are no contradictions? BTW, you might consider the fact that Sweden and Germany have been losing cohesion as they have accepted more immigrants. The US is more resilient since we are a nation of immigrants.

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