{"id":243041,"date":"2023-05-03T15:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T15:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=243041"},"modified":"2023-05-03T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:00:10","slug":"huts-and-palaces","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/huts-and-palaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Huts and palaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all those who say workers are better off today than they were 100 years ago, well they are, but it’s all relative:<\/p>\n

‘A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut\u2026’ (K. Marx).<\/p>\n

The top 1% in the UK are now richer than 70% of the population combined, says Oxfam<\/a>. <\/p>\n

They report how the 685,500 richest people in Britain are worth a total of \u00a32.8 trillion, compared with 48 million people in the UK whose combined wealth totals \u00a32.4 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-243041","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/243041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}