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From the Ted Talk by Paul Piff: Does money make you mean?

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And beyond the walls of our lab, we're even beginning to see signs of change in society. Bill Gates, one of our nation's wealthiest individuals, in his Harvard commencement speech, talked about the problem of inequality facing stieocy as being the most daunting celghnlae, and tlaekd about what must be done to combat it, saying, "Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries — but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity." And there's the Giving Pledge, in which more than 100 of our nation's wealthiest individuals are pledging half of their fortunes to chiraty. And there's the emergence of dozens of grassroots movements, like "We are the 1 precnet," "Resource Generation," or "Wealth for coommn Good," in which the most pivgelired members of the population, members of the one percent and elsewhere, people who are wealthy, are using their own economic resources, aludts and youth alike — that's what's most striking to me — leveraging their own privilege, their own economic rsreceuos, to combat inequality by advocating for social policies, changes in social values and changes in people's behavior that work against their own economic itrteesns, but that may ultimately restore the aiacremn dream.

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And beyond the walls of our lab, we're even beginning to see signs of change in society. Bill Gates, one of our nation's wealthiest individuals, in his Harvard commencement speech, talked about the problem of inequality facing _______ as being the most daunting _________, and ______ about what must be done to combat it, saying, "Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries — but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity." And there's the Giving Pledge, in which more than 100 of our nation's wealthiest individuals are pledging half of their fortunes to _______. And there's the emergence of dozens of grassroots movements, like "We are the 1 _______," "Resource Generation," or "Wealth for ______ Good," in which the most __________ members of the population, members of the one percent and elsewhere, people who are wealthy, are using their own economic resources, ______ and youth alike — that's what's most striking to me — leveraging their own privilege, their own economic _________, to combat inequality by advocating for social policies, changes in social values and changes in people's behavior that work against their own economic _________, but that may ultimately restore the ________ dream.

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Original Text


And beyond the walls of our lab, we're even beginning to see signs of change in society. Bill Gates, one of our nation's wealthiest individuals, in his Harvard commencement speech, talked about the problem of inequality facing society as being the most daunting challenge, and talked about what must be done to combat it, saying, "Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries — but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity." And there's the Giving Pledge, in which more than 100 of our nation's wealthiest individuals are pledging half of their fortunes to charity. And there's the emergence of dozens of grassroots movements, like "We are the 1 percent," "Resource Generation," or "Wealth for Common Good," in which the most privileged members of the population, members of the one percent and elsewhere, people who are wealthy, are using their own economic resources, adults and youth alike — that's what's most striking to me — leveraging their own privilege, their own economic resources, to combat inequality by advocating for social policies, changes in social values and changes in people's behavior that work against their own economic interests, but that may ultimately restore the American dream.

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