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|pages=256
|publisher=Piatkus Books
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|name=Magda
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|comment= But doesn't the authors make any moral judgements about the world which allows, no, approves of such level of personal wealth and the concominant inequalities?
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|name=Zoë
|verb=replied
|comment= The author does and he doesn't. He certainly acknowledges the pressure such a world puts on the "ordinary" folk who try to keep up and who often go into debt before they invariably fail in their keeping up attempts (thanks to the ever-increasing gap between the rich and the poor). But he also discusses the many new service and luxury gifts industries that such wealth has spawned. The figures quoted with regards to how many lower level jobs are directly and indirectly created and supported by each of these really rich people are quite astonishing.
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{{comment
|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= Yes. How kind of them.
(It's the first time there's been a butler shortage in the UK since the 19th century).
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