Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

The UK is the world’s sixth largest economy, and has never had more wealth at its disposal – but it doesn’t feel like it. There’s somehow never enough to go round. People still live in poverty and every town has a food bank. Libraries close. Hospital waiting rooms don’t have enough seats. Councils cut down street trees because they haven’t got enough money to maintain them. As citizens live with the feeling of decline and insufficiency, they find scapegoats for their disatisfaction and vote ...