![]() ![]() Besides, Rees-Mogg had been making melodramatic predictions in newspaper columns for decades. ![]() In 1997, the west was entering a period of relative prosperity, equality and political optimism, which the rise of Blair personified. The book’s mixture of gloom and glee, and air of patrician certainty, did not go down well with British reviewers. In such a harsh world, only the most talented, self-reliant, technologically adept person – “the sovereign individual” – would thrive. “By 2010 or thereabouts,” they wrote, welfare states “will simply become unfinanceable”. For 380 breathless pages, Lord Rees-Mogg and a co-author, James Dale Davidson, an American investment guru and conservative propagandist, predicted that digital technology would make the world hugely more competitive, unequal and unstable. ![]()
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