This video, already viewed by about 800,000 people since it came
out last November is, for some reason, racing around the
Internet with new abandon today. It's not that it's not
interesting. It certainly is. It's just that it's not that new.
It's based on a study that actually was released in 2010 by
Michael Norton, of Harvard Business School. He co-authored the
paper. He talked to Steve Inskeep about it back in 2010. And
almost two years ago, PBS Newshour tried to recreate Norton's
(and his colleague's) work. It presented several pie charts of
countries' distribution of wealth and asked people which country
they'd like to live in. Pie Chart C, based on Norton's work, was
actually the United States, although the country wasn't named.
Only 9 percent of people who took the survey said they wanted to
live there. The exercise was done as part of a series on
inequality in the United States. Watch Americans Facing More
Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? on PBS. See more
from PBS NewsHour. "It's probably a