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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Intergenerational has always been evident (as one would expect; people accrue assets as they get older), but its getting worse.... for the rich this can be reduced by transfers & inheritance, but for the rest poverty beckons....

This is just one more example of how the UK is a society run by the rich, for the rich, with scant regard of the social costs or misery such driven politics produces.

theguardian.com/society/2023/s

The GuardianPensioner poverty: fear of rise over decades as UK under-40s wealth fallsBy Hilary Osborne