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Why You Won’t Get Rich
And Why You Deserve Better Than This
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Why You Won’t Get Rich
Stories of economic shame in Britain and a hopeful way forward for capitalism
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In 2018, UN representatives spent two weeks in a single country investigating child poverty, concluding that it was 'not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster'. That country was the United Kingdom.
Who are the new faces of poverty? The same people we applaud as heroes: policemen, nurses, and firefighters. While a select few have gotten unthinkably rich in the past ten years, crushing levels of personal debt, high rents, low wages, and a punitive welfare system have brought countless others to the brink of financial collapse.
It doesn’t take a lot to end up on the breadline in Britain. And once you’re there, it’s nearly impossible to get out of it. These are the unseen victims of a broken economy.
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Why You Won’t Get Rich by Robert Verkaik is praised as a compelling critique of the entrenched systems contributing to economic inequality in modern Britain. It is lauded for its powerful analysis comparable to influential works by authors like Reni Eddo-Lodge and Owen Jones, with its hard-hitting and forensic approach to examining societal divisions.
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ISBN: 9781786078070
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 April 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 146.0mm
Height: 225.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Robert Verkaik is a journalist and author of Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain. He writes for the Guardian, Independent, the i, Observer, Sunday Telegraph 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. He lives in Surrey.
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