Why You Won’t Get Rich - Robert Verkaik

Why You Won’t Get Rich

And Why You Deserve Better Than This

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2022
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-0-86154-225-3 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
Stories of economic shame in Britain and a hopeful way forward for capitalism 
From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality.



Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse workers living in tents, nurses turning to foodbanks, London firemen commuting hundreds of miles to work.



Even those higher up the ladder are losing their grip on the life they were promised. Barristers take home less than the minimum wage and doctors are starting out with £100,000 student debts on salaries lower than the national average. We’re all facing a new economic phenomenon – in-work poverty. At the same time a generation of young professionals is coming to terms with never being able to own even the cheapest home in their area.



From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality.

Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse workers living in tents, nurses turning to foodbanks, London firemen commuting hundreds of miles to work.

Even those higher up the ladder are losing their grip on the life they were promised. Barristers take home less than the minimum wage and doctors are starting out with £100,000 student debts on salaries lower than the national average. We’re all facing a new economic phenomenon – in-work poverty. At the same time a generation of young professionals is coming to terms with never being able to own even the cheapest home in their area.

Hard work no longer pays off. But there is hope for a better, fairer future.

Robert Verkaik is the author of Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain and Jihadi John: the Making of a Terrorist. He writes for the Guardian, Independent, the i, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Tortoise and Sunday Times. His reporting was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010 and he was a runner-up in the specialist journalist category at the 2013 National Press Awards. Robert is also a volunteer adviser with Citizens Advice.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-86154-225-8 / 0861542258
ISBN-13 978-0-86154-225-3 / 9780861542253
Zustand Neuware
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