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The Super-Rich and Us
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The Super-Rich and Us

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Britain has more billionaires per capita than any other country, and also one of the widest wealth gaps in Europe. Journalist Jacques Peretti traces how that combination came about, starting with a legal loophole that turned the UK into a magnet for tax havens, a shift he argues was deliberate government policy built on the bet that wealth at the top would trickle down. OECD figures cited in the film suggest otherwise: the British economy would be 20% larger had the strategy never been pursued. Peretti meets the people who benefited, including owners who bought up Premier League football clubs and foreign multimillionaires purchasing British property, alongside a few billionaires now criticizing the system that enriched them. He also confronts the officials who designed the original policies. The series links this wealth concentration directly to unaffordable housing and a shift from a nation of homeowners to one of renters, tracking how money at the very top reshapes ordinary life below it.