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The Rorting Twenties

Covid: robbing the poor to give to the rich

29 May 2021

9:00 AM

29 May 2021

9:00 AM

We are now in the rorting Twenties. Wealth is being concentrated among a few global billionaire elites and large companies while many young people are set to be the first in centuries who are worse off than their parents.

This dangerous shift is being enabled by governments across the Western world who, for some time, have worked to centralise and consolidate political, economic and cultural power.

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Cian Hussey is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.

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