It brings to mind a headline I saw recently,

And politically, it was awful.

I think I'm in a difficult position here.

We're only trying to improve our lives.

And that is not a bad thing, in itself.

But another really important difference is how they get their greater equality.

It's the same with institutions.

It's not geography.

And the fact is that our healthcare system today is characterized by unconscionable disparities disparities in health on the basis of race and ethnicity, geography, orientation and socioeconomic status.

And I believe if we do these things, we can close the opportunity gaps, we can close the hope gaps.

But there are huge differences at the same time between the better off countries and the worse off countries and there are also huge inequalities within countries.

It comes from the World Values Survey.

One, the red line, is the ratio of British to Indian per capita income.

And you can see here that there's an exponential Great Divergence.

Let's eliminate disparities so we all feel thankful for everyday

At that time there was a we and them.

U.K., Portugal, USA, Singapore the differences are twice as big.

This is my big vision.

No, what happened to us, Chris, is that power, it's priced off the margin.

And as soon as you've got that idea, you should immediately wonder what happens if we widen the differences, or compress them, make the income differences bigger or smaller?

Economic historians call this The Great Divergence.

Don't go asking for a Frappuccino there.

And there, you see it in relation to the measure of inequality I've just shown you, which I shall use over and over again in the data.

So we conclude that it doesn't much matter how you get your greater equality, as long as you get there somehow.

And the blue line is the ratio of American to Chinese.

like the Mughals and the Ottomans.

Curiosity and imagination.

And this slide here is the best simplification of the Great Divergence story

And so chapter one really begins today, with all of us, because within each of us is the power to equal those opportunity gaps and to close the hope gaps.

And here, Maharashtra, with Mumbai, is forging forward.

Japan is rather different though.

No man is an island.

Now, why is that happening to us? Why is the inequality rising?

In Latin, there are six cases nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative.

Here it is in relation to that same measure of inequality.

Sweden topped the medal table at the Winter Olympics, and I was born.

like the internet, as a great leveler.

Everything goes into it.

But one thing is for sure, the Great Divergence is over, folks.

For everything is parades and society there's a species in danger of extinction

You all know the truth of what I'm going to say.

That huge historical gap between the West and the Rest is now closing.

The gap between rich and poor is getting wider.

And if you look at measures of involvement in community life or social capital, very similar relationships closely related to inequality.

It means the age gap has begun to shrink.