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Who's In Your Inner Circle?

Hidden Brain

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How Much Does Economic Connectivity Make in a Community?

If you take a typical poor kid and give them the same friendships network that a typical rich kid would have, it predicts a 20% increase in their lifetime income. Sena Karumi: It's natural to want to spend time with people who I like us. But this very human impulse has the propensity to create sealed economic caste systems. When we reach out to form connections with people in different economic stations, it has the potential to transform our lives - and those of strangers.

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