Downstream: The Real Reason Millennials Are Screwed w/ Eliza Filby
Dr Eliza Filby is a historian and author of the bestselling book Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad. In conversation with Ash Sarkar, Dr Filby draws on her own life story, growing up in South London with parents who went from communists to Thatcherites in the 1980s. She debunks the common myths we tell ourselves about class and meritocracy, and in doing so, shines a light on the root cause of so much inequality: inherited wealth. Is it really true that the Baby Boomers stole the next generation’s future? Why do housing deposits fall out of the sky for some people…
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