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Stories from around the world on Everyday Inequality. Inequality is not only a statistic, a rubric, or a distant problem. Inequality emerges from everyday decisions and acts. Do we send out children to a paying school? Do we fly business or economy? Do we fly to the conference in New York or Nairobi? Do I buy the label that just looks better and helps me ‘fit in’? Do I buy the FT Weekend or watch Sky News in the pub or hotel cafe? Does inequality emerge from choices we align with status anxiety and keeping up appearances? And since society is more than ever a society of appearances and economic merit, how do we choose to opt out of the drive to embody the privileges inequality grants to the few?