But the labour market is polarised between "work-rich" and "work-poor" households, which particularly affects families.
Unperturbed, voters sorted wheat from chaff: in most districts the voting polarised between two or three candidates.
The debate can often feel polarised between those who think this a tremendous development and those who argue that we need to turn the clock back.
But the ultimate judgment may well be that he performed the vital service of holding his party together when it was dangerously polarised between Healey and Tony Benn.
Attitudes in the US tend to be polarised between those who view him as a traitor and those who see him as a hero.
The band's debut EP, The Modern Age, arrived in early 2001, a time when rock music lacked a centre, polarised between nu-metal tantrums and polite melancholy.
"Listen," Wainaina says, "your nation is being polarised between Islamic militants and Pentecostal reactionaries: what is the single issue they can agree on and unite around?
The dialogue, currently polarised between the shooting, landowning interests and anti-shooting voices, should instead be positive and inclusive, not accusatory and finger-pointing.
Gothenburg is divided, polarised between those who are inside the system and those who feel they are outside, that they don't belong".
To some extent, the discussion about BMD in the UK has been polarised between evangelical supporters and dyed-in-the-wool opponents.
In a world polarised between Shazamable dance remixes and Live Lounge gloop, it's neither ballsy nor bare enough to placate the masses.
