Book, Does the Wealth of a Few Benefit Us All?, A[LS]

A new unmissable essay by the author of the best-selling Liquid Love After decades of claiming that the market would be responsible for correcting income disparities between the poor and rich, research and official statistics attest to just the opposite: the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. In this concise and indispensable book, Zygmunt Bauman analyzes, one by one, the premises that support the conviction that the wealth of a few benefits us all, unveiling the fallacies that are hidden behind it. At the same time, in an unexpected and subtle way, he shows how the individualism of the consumer world is the ideology that justifies the unbridled enrichment of the already very rich, presenting the celebrity model as a life strategy. Indispensable for everyone who wants to understand not only how the guiding notions of our social and economic behavior operate and are disseminated, but also the currently dominant policies, which assign the task of correcting everything to the market.