Dr Eliza Philby
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first heard Jul 2026
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I'm really fascinated by inheritance.
I'm really fascinated by generational shifts.
And there's this thing that the financial sort of sector are talking about, which is the great wealth transfer, this mass transference of basically the largest transference of wealth down the generations in history.
Trillions of pounds, not just in the UK, but across the world.
And actually, I'm living it.
I'm like, the best way of telling this story is through me.
So Inheritocracy is a deliberately provocative title, the antidote to a meritocracy, the belief that hard work will result in success and opportunity.
An Inheritocracy is a society where
on which it's not what you're earning or learning, but whether you have access to the bank of mum and dad that is defining your opportunity, your safety net, and your springboard into adulthood.
And that has really been the story that's defined millennials since the 2008 financial crisis, which we're going to, and increasingly now Gen Z, and I believe possibly Gen Alpha, our kids.
I like to think of it like this.
I think we need to start accepting that the exceptionalism was the baby boomers.
What they experienced was exceptional.
They're exceptional in numbers.
So many of them, which is why they've yielded such considerable political power, economic power, corporate and cultural power.
And actually, you know, in terms of demographics, there wasn't one baby boom that consistently lasted for 20 years.
It sort of peaked and trough.
Exceptional in number.
They're exceptional because they entered the world in the aftermath of the Second World War, where there was a promise.
And the promise to a certain degree, I'm not suggesting that generation didn't experience difficulty, but the promise was from cradle to grave care.
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