The Super-Rich and Us

It seemed like a foolproof plan. Entice the world’s richest people to live and invest in Britain and then watch as their billions trickled down to make everyone richer. But it’s now believed that the country would have been better off if this had never happened. Journalist Jacques Peretti meets the super-rich and tries to figure out how this economic vision went so spectacularly wrong.

Is life so super for the super-rich? Radical economic decisions were made in various wealthy countries to exploit inequality and destabilize work in order to drive the profit culture for a select few. Journalist Jacques Peretti meets the billionaires who benefited but are now fearful of the society that these innovations created and the steps they are taking to protect themselves and their wealth.