{"id":409118,"date":"2017-11-28T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/11\/171128091420.htm"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:14:20","slug":"upscaling-is-a-catalyst-for-inequality-researchers-argue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=409118","title":{"rendered":"Upscaling is a catalyst for inequality, researchers argue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The laws of\u00a0nature\u00a0are what drive wealth inequality within a given society &#8212; unless society takes action to counteract their effect, such as by adopting laws on taxation. The larger the scale, the greater the inequality. Today&#8217;s globalization trend is thus a process that naturally reinforces inequality. At the same time, globalization also makes it more difficult to provide societal counterbalance. This conclusion is drawn by researchers in a publication on inequality that combines insights gleaned from nature and society. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laws of&nbsp;nature&nbsp;are what drive wealth inequality within a given society &#8212; unless society takes action to counteract their effect, such as by adopting laws on taxation. The larger the scale, the greater the inequality. Today&#8217;s globalization trend is thus a process that naturally reinforces inequality. At the same time, globalization also makes it more difficult to provide societal counterbalance. This conclusion is drawn by researchers in a publication on inequality that combines insights gleaned from nature and society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409119,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409118\/revisions\/409119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}