Everyone Making More Progress Than You? Be Grateful
The economy is booming. Stocks are through the roof. And your neighbor, who just got a great new job, is putting a pool in the backyard. Progress is great. Unless, of course, it's not happening for you, according to newswise.com. Economic progress can cause people to feel dispossessed and angry if they don’t feel like they are also advancing, a new study notes. “The results indicate that a booming economy may not be the incumbent government’s sole insurance against loss of public support,” says Cecilia Hyunjung Mo of Vanderbilt University, one of three authors of the study, “ Economic Development, Mobility, and Political Discontent." “People must feel they are doing well and sharing society’s success.” The study was conducted using face-to-face interviews in 2013-2014 in Pakistan, covering 2,090 households in 76 villages in the Punjab, Sidh and Kyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) provinces. Subjects were divided into four groups. Those primed into vi...