Wealth Inequality: English Law's Unintended Legacy? - Leslie Thomas KC
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2024
- Today, the UK is a deeply unequal society.
This lecture critically evaluates the relationship between English law and capitalism and explores how legal changes over the past 30 years, such as deregulating the housing market and weakening trade unions, have widened wealth inequality.
The lecture examines the role of lawyers in addressing these issues.
This lecture was recorded by Leslie Thomas KC on 29th February 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Leslie is Gresham Professor of Law.
Before joining Gresham College, he served as a joint Head of Chambers at Garden Court Chambers and continues to be an active Bencher to the Inner Temple, where he is Master of equality, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI).
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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Superb lecture. Made me very angry.
But must watch. I love all your lectures Sir Leslie Thomas. Very informative
All professions should watch this lecture. Striving for virtue seems to be an outdated notion. Bring back the classics in education.
Definitely INTENTIONAL
🙏🏼👏🏼✊🏼🫶🏼🖖🏼♥️ 4 The Man, who speeks the truth, thx 4 GRESHAM too, we need professor Leslie Thomas in Poland, where we are permanently being expected to be frightened by the neolibs bubbling that protest against emissions is the horror of communism cominng back. Horror of living without a threat of loosing home, loosing job, gaining double job for half the salary, horror of life without an unpayable dept, horror of universities for free, legal abortion, and so on. I'm not saying it was a perfect world, obviously I'd apply a lot of progressive changes ;) and we can't get back the time, but such a voice as we may cherish here does not exist in Poland but in the "radical leftist" leaflets. Basics needs are so radical ..
We in Germany do not have a large renter market by choice. We would like to own our homes. We are prevented from it by older generations seeing them also as investments.
A moral economic system must recognise the primordial liberty all individuals' ancestors possessed [like EVERY life-form that has EVER existed on Earth] of securing their subsistence food and shelter from nature's largesse, WITHOUT RESTRAINT. For about three-hundred millennia human-beings have had that liberty, that freedom, until it was eliminated in those civilisations whose economies relied on slavery and involuntary servitude - which emerged about six-millennia ago - they survived through the ages, in various forms, into the present form of capitalism. Neo- liberal economies rely on the disarticulation of humanity from its primordial liberty to look after itself, without substituting an equitable consideration [subsistence food and shelter - or cash equivalent for those who provide their own], to ensure that the subordinate individual cannot be free to cooperate or not, deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgements, convictions and interests dictate - the legal device used to accomplish the individuals subordination is exclusive private property in land, without provision of a consideration, to the individual, from the State that legislates for it, which thereby allows capitalists to inflict injustices on humanity.
The 5th amendment to the US Constitution forbids the taking of private property for public use without compensation, if this principle is to be considered to have a universal relevancy for individuals then the taking of what is accepted as nature’s largesse (the common domain) for oneself and denying others use of it should be subject to a consideration paid to those who are excluded [in an equitable, delineated, monetized society], a consideration that recognizes every present and future citizen’s [posterity] inalienable allodial interest by the payment of annual ground rent from any person or organization who makes exclusive private use of a part of a territory that is considered the national territory - in which every citizen has property [as a consideration for the elimination of their ancestor's primordial liberty] - if the State legislates for exclusive property in land. An interest the occupier supports because of their philosophic acknowledgement of every individuals’ inalienable right to life. The provision for all citizens of subsistence [food/shelter, or cash in lieu] would be the responsibility of the government that legislates for exclusive property in land since it is governments that have conspired over the centuries to disarticulate humanity from its primordial liberty to access the Earth. All present governments are complicit in maintaining economies based on robbing Peter [humanity of a primordial liberty] in order to privilege Paul [the wealthy and their vassals]. Considered critique will be welcomed.
Due to Ego the wealthy establishment let self interest dominate justice, so just us. Not that poor egoistics would have done better.... Ego is the common enemy of mankind.
Another diversity quota
The Goddess that is Maggie Thatcher.