Across our world, people are angry. Surveys shout it. Anecdotes too. Seething anger – seemingly everywhere. And of course, it’s also roaring from the ballot box. And yet, we are prosperous. Historically so. Collectively and individually. By almost any measure, we are safer, healthier, and wealthier than at any time in history. And yet the anger keeps growing. While the reflex response of “It’s the economy, stupid” is clearly not enough, many still grapple for economic explanations. Both the broad left and the populist right have settled on inequality. Piketty and Stiglitz, Bannon and Farage seem to champion the so-called “left behind”. If…

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