What strikes me about this is my perception, based on one of his early slides comparing communities in Britain, that what matters most is the most local of disparities, not even so much the disparity within a country. What I take from this is that if one lives in such a way as to not be "less than" others on a daily basis, one is less likely to be stressed out by one's status even if it is low. So if the poor live among the poor, they may actually be quite happy and not so stressed. I have witnessed this in my travels, for example among poor Mexican farmers for whom it is no big deal to not possess an iphone: they have food, family and home, and it is all they need. When left to their own devices they are grateful and not overly stressed. It is where the interfaces occur that the stress occurs.

The Occupy movement, by bringing the homeless and unemployed (who are the ones who persist in camping in business districts when others must go back to their homes and work) into direct contact with the well-employed business elite, is accentuating the differences and escalating the stress.

I personally would like to help create a local sustainable community that is able to isolate itself from mainstream society sufficiently enough to eliminate these stresses.