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    99%: How We've Been Screwed and How to Fight Back
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    99%: How We've Been Screwed and How to Fight Back

    By Mark Thomas

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    A Financial Times Book of the Year.

    A clear, readable analysis of the inescapable fact that Generation Y (and subsequent generations) will be poorer than their parents, and how we should pursue other economic paths.

    If you are part of the 99% – and there is a 99% chance that you are – then you are one of the first generation in living memory who can expect to be poorer than your parents, even as the economy continues to grow.

    And you could be quite a lot poorer. If we continue as we are going, the civilisation we enjoy today will not last until 2050. Buying their own house is a distant dream for most young people; their wages are failing to keep pace with inflation; and more and more people are having to rely on food banks. Our age is one of chronic anxiety.

    If the economy is doing so well, how can most people not be doing well? If the pie is growing, why aren't we all getting bigger slices?

    This book shows what we, the 99%, can do to end mass impoverishment and build a society worth living in: an age of abundance, in which everyone benefits.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApollo
    Release dateAug 8, 2019
    ISBN9781789544527
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    99%: How We've Been Screwed and How to Fight Back
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    Mark Thomas

    Mark Thomas is the founder and president of Escoute Consulting, an IT governance consultancy focusing on helping enterprises realise benefits through risk and resource optimisation. As a nationally known ITIL and COBIT expert with more than 20 years of professional experience, Mark’s background spans leadership roles from data centre chief information officer (CIO) to management and IT consulting. Mark has led large teams in outsourced IT arrangements, conducted project management office (PMO), service management and governance activities for major project teams, and managed enterprise applications implementations across multiple industries. Mark has an array of industry experience in the healthcare, finance, manufacturing, services, high technology and government verticals. When he’s not travelling, Mark lives with his family in the Kansas City, MO, area and claims to be a ‘certified’ barbeque judge in his spare time.

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