Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
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The Barriers to Inequality
One of the main strategies to think of the top 10% is that they even though as Terry said, they think of themselves as absolutely novel. So, for example, if you propose to raise their taxes, especially with its income tax, which is more associated with very sort of bureaucratic process, they don't see that as benefiting them in any way. That normality is perhaps related to the frame of reference, the kind of people they socialize with. And that's also perhaps to do with the fact that they have particularly high levels of education,. They're more likely to be professional managers, which means that they relate to other professionals and managers. so, they are normal within that sort
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