For all those who say workers are better off today than they were 100 years ago, well they are, but it’s all relative:
‘A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut…’ (K. Marx).
The top 1% in the UK are now richer than 70% of the population combined, says Oxfam.
They report how the 685,500 richest people in Britain are worth a total of £2.8 trillion, compared with 48 million people in the UK whose combined wealth totals £2.4 trillion.