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London is a plutocrats paradise with more resident billionaires than New York Hong Kong or Moscow Far from trickling down their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city But what do we really know about Londons super rich and the lives they lead
To find out more about this secretive securityheavy elite sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey via Kensington Notting Hill Mayfair and elsewhere Her walks reveal how the wealthy shape the capital in their image creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments A move behind closed doors takes us ever further into the dark heart of the plutocratic city from multimillionpound mansions to highend hotels and gentlemens clubs Along the way we meet a wide and wickedly entertaining cast of millionaires billionaires and those who serve them bankers aristocrats tech tycoons Conservative party donors butlers bodyguards divorce lawyers and many many more
By turns jawdropping enraging and enlightening Serious Money explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it when the plutocrats recompense a life of unlimited luxury ultimately proves hollow It is a powerful reminder us that it is not just the superrich who get to make the city we make it too and could demand something different Because serious money is good for no one not even the rich
Caroline Knowles 2022 P Penguin Audio 2022
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