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May 2022
48m 47s

Money 2.0: The Rich and the Rest of Us

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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Where do you stand on the income ladder? Do you think of yourself as rich, as poor, or as somewhere in between? Our perceptions of wealth — our own, and other people's — can affect us more profoundly than we realize. This week in our Money 2.0 series, we revisit two of our favorite conversations about wealth and inequality. Sociologist Brook Harrington takes ... Show More
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