Putting the care back into capitalism – without it social strife and suffering across social classes will continue. Amongst super rich, ie those with greater than £50 million in wealth, it has been observed that there are higher rates of mental ill-health, possibly due to separation from the general population.
Amongst the large and growing poor & middle class, there is an inability to meet basic needs and live with a basic level of enjoyment. In an to attempt to achieve this, high interest credit is taking the place of cash, putting people further in debt and increasing strain for individuals and wider society. Resources and effort from the poor is diverted to providing a higher level of an excess of luxury, for the very rich. This is inbuilt by both capitalism naturally increasing wealth for those already with it & individual decisions, those with large wealth for too long have acted with a lack of understanding, for consequences for their actions, the impact on wider society. Furthering their own wealth to proportions of worse than meaninglessly high numbers, has stripped governments wealth of assets, raised national debt. It has been illustrated in a sell off of government property, essential services, sections of the NHS, publicly owned public spaces and increased their inability to serve people, the purpose and reason for governments, & for paying taxes. Alongside governments, middle and working classes wealth is stripped by the high interest loans they pay, the naturally rising value of super-rich assets, including property and stocks, further preventing working and middle classes of a capability of living with happiness and sense of agency, a lack lack of funds and working class people checking out of a system working against them. This is not to say working and middle class people have no agency, only that the super-rich are in effect given more per person, often hereditarily, partly as a result of the number one source of wealth being it bequeathed.

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