
Steven Bartlett with Nick Hanauer and Daniel Priestley
Rising inequality and advancing technology are systematically hollowing out the middle class, pushing modern societies toward either a police state or outright revolution if structural economic changes are not made immediately.
For decades, economic productivity gains have gone almost exclusively to the wealthy, fundamentally breaking the wage mechanism that once built a stable and prosperous middle class.
Mega-corporations and massive private equity funds extract immense value from local economies while exploiting global tax loopholes, essentially operating as modern monopolies that stifle true market competition.
A capitalist democracy thrives only when the majority of its citizens are paid well enough to actively purchase the goods and services the system produces.