26 - Richard Wilkinson: Inequality, Health, and Positive Psychology
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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The History of Class Difference Through Patterns of Taste and Aesthetics
In my childhood, having a carpet that didn't extend the full width width was something you did to save money. And so our taste has been completely reversed. I mean, uset in them er. You can tell who ave learnt their language ly by reading and who and language mainly by a being brought up with. It used to be the rich who were beast and theer, the poor were thin. Then that gradually reversed as the poor could afford to eat more. Suddenly, it became essential for an upper class woman to be thin andand oll but s,. i think his name is, he wrote a book showing the history of these patterns going right back to the middle ages
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