<< In a recent study picked up in the French press, the academic Mélanie Plouviez cites one of her country’s best-loved novelists to make a damning point. The power of inherited and unearned wealth in the France of 2025, she argues, replicates the social injustices found in Honoré de Balzac’s 19th-century chronicles of ambition and despair. As in the 1820s, she writes, “Who now could buy a place in Paris relying only on their wage and without family help? With the resurgence of inherited wealth, a gulf between what work allows and inheritance allows has also returned.” >>
<< The problem is a sadly familiar one across Europe, and the same observation could be made of Britain, Germany or Italy. >>
Editorial. The Guardian view on Europe’s growing wealth divide: back to the world of Balzac. A new study highlights the dangers of a modern rentier capitalism that perpetuates inequality through the generations. The Guardian. Thu 15 May 2025 19.25 CEST.
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Font: here is an intriguing question: who knows what any State will ask of individual citizens in exchange for the essential Citizenship allowance (e.g.Unconditional Basic Income, UBI), an allowance that it will have to give to the entire population to stabilize the survival of any community.
