It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’ | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as such, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation

Successive #governments have claimed to be for #WorkingPeople but have turned a #BlindEye to the fact that most #WealthAccumulation in recent decades has been thru the passive collection of returns on #ExistingWealth, rather than earned thru #HardWork or #entrepreneurial brilliance. #ExtremeWealth