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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:24 The UK's inequality crisis
04:32 Charles Dickens level poverty?
06:32 Sponsor
08:16 Inequality drives everything?
13:04 A wealth tax
18:10 Conclusion

Attribution:
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Thank you to AP Archive for access to their archival footage.
Stock footage and others clips by Getty

Narrated and produced by Dr. Joeri Schasfoort