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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
The ‘Equality Effect’ Is Taking Hold — And We Know It Works
It’s no news that greater economic equality benefits us all. Yet the political landscape in many places seems to drift us further apart from it.
The latest edition of Oxford-based New Internationalist magazine focuses on the ‘equality effect’ in depth. What’s the evidence for it? What does history teach us? Where do we go from here?
It’s helpful to look at the definition of ‘equality’ beyond just income or tax systems. As the article describes:
“Equality means being afforded the same rights, dignity and freedoms as other people. These include the right to access resources, the dignity of being seen as able, and the freedom to choose what to make of your life on an equal footing with others.”
In short, greater economic equality makes us all less stupid, less fearful and more satisfied with life. And yet, we’re somehow scared to truly take the political action to move towards a more equal society, as the author argues: “We are not sure because we have tolerated immense inequality for so long that we can’t be sure of all that is possible when we eventually do treat each other with economic respect.”
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