{"id":145497,"date":"2025-02-13T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=145497"},"modified":"2025-02-13T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:22:15","slug":"the-price-of-fairness-why-do-we-accept-inequality-and-social-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=145497","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Fairness: Why Do We Accept Inequality And Social Injustice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1_eAkXkDmZw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do we accept huge levels of inequality and social injustice? This is one of the central questions that The Price of Fairness sets out to answer, beginning with a surprising set of social experiments in Norway, which suggest that our willingness to support systems of inequality is far greater than we are often prepared to admit. Touching on issues of economic, political, racial and gender inequality, this film offers a thought-provoking and timely look at what fairness really means to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we accept huge levels of inequality and social injustice? This is one of the central questions that The Price of Fairness sets out to answer, beginning with a surprising set of social experiments in Norway, which suggest that our willingness to support systems of inequality is far greater than we are often prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[1449,4055],"class_list":["post-145497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-documentary","tag-endevr-documentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-price-of-fairness-why-do-we.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":143957,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=143957","url_meta":{"origin":145497,"position":0},"title":"A World Without Hierarchy: Can Decentralization Redefine Society?","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"03\/12\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Corruption. 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