Steal As Much As You Can

A book about how austerity has made our society and culture less equal, and what we can do to challenge it. The 2010s have been a lost decade. For many of us who entered the workplace over the last nine years, there is a feeling of having been sold a lie. We were promised social mobility, a country freed from its feudal past by the liberal free-market politics of the coalition and Conservative governments, as they built upon the political project started by Thatcher and continued under New Labour. But as anyone from a low-income family seeking to go beyond the fold of professional services to shape the arts, culture and even systems of governance will tell you, that promise was false. After a decade of mourning, Steal as Much as You Can is a call to mobilise the effective methods at our disposal to overcome the paralysing effects of this carefully constructed myth of social mobility and achieve self-determination. By rejecting the established routines of achieving prosperity, and by stealing what you can from them on the way, this book offers hope to anyone who feels increasingly frustrated by our increasingly unequal society.