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A post shared by Darrin Nightingale (@mrmrsnightingale) on Oct 28, 2018 at 2:45am PDT

Found a fiver. Beggar got lucky.

Just let that headline sink in for a moment. “The combined wealth of the richest 1,000 people in the UK has increased by 183 per cent over the past 10 years.” 183 per cent. One hundred and eighty three per cent. Combined wealth in 2009, £256 billion. Combined wealth in 2018, £724 billion. Seven hundred and twenty four billion pounds. They have made £468 billion in the ten years we have seen Nurses using food banks. They have made £468 million each in the ten years we have seen disabled people taking their own lives because their benefits have been cut. They made almost £47 million a year each in the ten years that has seen assaults involving a sharp instrument rise 15%. How has that been allowed to happen?

This is a scary piece of research. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere about screens blinding us not just intellectually but physically.