Skyrocketing housing prices, most in the Western world. Two hundred new billionaires within the span of 24 months. And a former mayor who earns eight billion in five years.
That’s some of the examples in Andreas Cervenka’s book Greedy Sweden (Girig-Sverige). A book with the subtitle “How the People’s Home became a paradise for the super-rich”.
For a long time, Sweden was known as one of the world's most equal countries. But in the recent decades, this has changed fundamentally.
The gap between the super wealthy and the rest of the population has increased rapidly. The proportion of the economy owned by the richest thousandth is higher than in the United States, and Sweden has more dollar billionaires than Japan and Brazil.
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