This week we take on ‘social mobility’ and explore what it means for how we live, work and care for each other. Does a focus on individual mobility obscure structural inequalities? And what would a more collective guide for our economy look like?

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This week we talked about:

• Rebecca Solnit’s ⁠essay on centrism as bias⁠

• Sutton Trust’s ⁠overview of social mobility’s past, present and future⁠

• ⁠Jeremy Corbyn’s move from social mobility to social justice⁠

• ⁠Social Mobility Day⁠

• ⁠This article⁠ on the loss of entry level jobs and the role of ChatGPT

• ⁠Ezra Collective at Glastonbury⁠

• ⁠This article⁠ on the closure of the Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust

• ⁠Community Wealth Building in Preston⁠ (“the Preston model”)

• ⁠CLES’s ⁠work on Community Wealth Building

• Citizen Network’s ⁠Neighbourhoods of Care⁠

Our music for the episode is ⁠Bobby Bertoli’s Rebirth⁠ (thanks Bob x).