Employers for Equality

Titel EN: Undeserved Inequality: Finding a Way Out of the Inheritocracy

Sprache: Deutsch with live translation into English

Zielgruppe: Alle Interessent*innen

Aktionstag: Diversity Day

🇬🇧 There has never been so much wealth – and that is a problem for all of us

In hardly any other Western country is wealth distributed as unequally as in Germany – and the gap keeps widening. In her talk, Martyna Linartas lays out the shocking scale of inequality in Germany. The fact that the fortunes of the rich keep growing from one generation to the next while one in six people lives in poverty is social dynamite. But if more and more wealth is inherited, and the family you are born into matters more and more – can we still speak of a meritocracy at all?

Martyna Linartas shows that the course of inequality and of the inheritance society depends on our political will, and what a fair solution could look like. Her analysis dissects the political taboo of our time: our failure to tax the rich endangers our prosperity, our environment and our democracy. But there is another way – if we choose to take it. Drawing on exclusive interviews with the powerful business elite about inequality and the interplay of business and politics, as well as a singular historical analysis, she shows how taxing the ultra-rich can work.