The UK - a broken society. Surely, one of the most important articles that

[Joe Chi Minh]

the Guardian has published since it was founded.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/29/social-mobility-inequality-conservative-thatcher?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments

[thunder rising]

1. They don't have to worry. They will never be the last on the list.

Among 21 developed market ­democracies, we found that Britain does worst on child wellbeing and badly on teenage births, imprisonment, drug abuse, trust, obesity, social mobility and mental ­illness. This week brought fresh confirmation of the pervasive and profound inequality in Britain in the form of a 460-page government-commissioned study – An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK – which described a nation in which the richest 10% are more than 100 times as wealthy as the poorest 10%.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. True to an extent, yet as per the concluding paragraph, their quality of life is improved

as well as that of the people, in a less economically-polarized society.

[inna]

3. Well, compared to us.... I'm not sure what to say.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Re your tagline, as that fabled populist, Adam Smith, put it

(and what a friend of the people, he was, in reality):

"The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."