Enough : Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich

Author: Hildyard, Luke

Poverty & unemployment

Published on 20 March 2024 by PLUTO PRESS in the United Kingdom.

'This, right now, with no excuses, no delays, no equivocation, no loop-holes, no moaning' - Danny Dorling'A concise, sharp book that makes an incontrovertible case for a profound redistribution of wealth; and a rousing call to arms to take on the super-rich and build an economy that works for everyone' - Grace BlakeleyThe story is all too familiar. The global economy generates immense fortunes for a super-rich elite. Yet at the same time pay stagnates for ordinary workers, food banks proliferate and public services collapse around us.

In Enough, Luke Hildyard argues that far from being the hard-working and productive entrepreneurs that they claim to be, the super-rich are an extractive, parasitic force sucking up a vastly disproportionate share of society’s resources – making the rest of us all poorer as a result. Politicians make absurd promises about economic growth while ignoring the solution that’s staring them in the face. Enough shows that a major programme of taxes on the rich and economic reform could be used to get the wealth of the one per cent flowing instead to the workers who actually create it.