While it's about Australia it applies directly to the UK and USA who have both had booms.

Co-incidentally - they illustrate this with a snap of Gina Rinehart who is once again the richest woman on the planet.

I went to a charity lunch today and Gina was at a table 2 down from me with the wife of another multi-Billionaire. I did think of wandering on down and hitting her for a loan, fully prepared to immediately switch to the far right of politics, her preferred stance.


The big con: how neoliberals convinced us there wasn't enough to go around
Richard Denniss
"Australia just experienced one of the biggest mining booms in world history. But even at the peak of that boom, there was no talk of the wonderful opportunity we finally had to invest in world-class mental health or domestic violence crisis services."

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/...-enough-to-go-around