the disruptive effect of inequality on team coordination can outweigh the motivating effect on particular individuals.

Nations, states, and regions with higher degrees of income inequality actually have less upward mobility, a relationship known as the Gatsby curve.

people make sense of uncertain or ambiguous circumstances by relying on their expectations.

they see individual merit as just one factor among many that determines success or failure in a competitive market. They tend to consider the economic system as a whole rather than just the individual players within it, which means taking into account such factors as monopolies, old-boy networks, institutional racism and sexism, and cycles of

feeling superior in status magnifies our feeling that we see reality as it is while our opponents are deluded.

Stress hormones tell your kidneys to stop taking water out of the bloodstream to make urine, while throughout the body water is diverted from tissues to the bloodstream,

high-inequality contexts make contentment even harder.

Feeling poor made people more willing to roll the dice.

People who feel powerless tend to believe in conspiracies carried out by the powerful.