{"id":56294,"date":"2026-07-08T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=56294"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:14:46","slug":"concentrated-wealth-blocked-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/concentrated-wealth-blocked-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Concentrated wealth, the blocked future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"component text\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n\n\n    <div class=\"row\">\n      <div class=\"col  col-lg-8  offset-lg-2\">\n        <h3><b>While a minority concentrates an ever-growing share of global wealth, millions of people are finding it increasingly difficult to access housing, build savings, and achieve prosperity. Economic inequality is no longer an ideological issue. It is a measurable reality that is shaping the future of our societies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades, Western economies have built their narrative around an apparently simple promise:<\/span><b> if the economy grows, everyone benefits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This principle worked reasonably well throughout much of the 20th century. After the Second World War, Europe and the United States experienced an economic expansion that enabled the consolidation of the middle classes, widespread access to housing, and a sustained improvement in living standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, data from the last forty years points to a different reality. <\/span><b>Wealth continues to grow, but it is increasingly concentrated in fewer hands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. At the same time, a significant portion of the population faces growing difficulties in accumulating wealth, maintaining purchasing power, or securing future prospects comparable to those enjoyed by previous generations. The great paradox of our time is that <\/span><b>we are living through the most materially abundant period in history<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while perceptions of precariousness, insecurity, and impoverishment continue to rise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>An Increasingly Wealthy&#8230; and Unequal World<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concentration of wealth is one of the most significant economic phenomena of the 21st century. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wid.world\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Inequality Lab<\/span><\/a><b>, the richest 10% of the Spanish population controls nearly 60% of the country\u2019s total private wealth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while the poorest half of the population owns only a small fraction of total assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a global level, the situation is similar. Data from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wid.world\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Inequality Lab<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/publications\/trends-in-income-inequality-and-its-impact-on-economic-growth_5jxrjncwxv6j-en.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the OECD<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wir2022.wid.world\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Inequality Report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> show that <\/span><b>the wealth of large fortunes has grown at a much faster pace than the real economy over recent decades<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Financial crises, expansionary monetary policies, and rising asset values have ultimately benefited those who already possessed wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are not only talking about millionaires. The fundamental divide lies between those <\/span><b>who own assets that appreciate over time<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014homes, stocks, businesses, or precious metals\u2014and <\/span><b>those who rely exclusively on their salaries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to maintain their standard of living.This divide is creating a new social fault line that cuts across much of the developed world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Catalonia: Less Statistical Inequality, but Greater Difficulty in Prospering<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catalonia presents lower inequality indicators than the Spanish average. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idescat.cat\/indicadors\/?id=ue\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gini index<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is below the national level, and income distribution is relatively more balanced than in other territories. <\/span><b>Yet income tells only part of the story<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key issue <\/span><b>is wealth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A family may earn a decent income and still find itself in a vulnerable situation if it cannot purchase a home, if it spends an excessive share of its income on rent, or if it is unable to generate savings. The latest data from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idescat.cat\/indicadors\/?id=ue\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Idescat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> indicate that nearly <\/span><b>one quarter of the Catalan population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. At the same time, access to housing has become one of the main economic concerns for citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This reality explains <\/span><b>an increasingly widespread perception<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: many people work, study, and produce more than ever, yet feel they have a harder time prospering than their parents did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>From a Wage-Based Society to a Wealth-Based Society<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand this transformation, we need to look back. For much of the 20th century, work was the primary mechanism for social advancement. Wages evolved relatively in line with productivity and allowed families to gradually build wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This balance began to change in the 1980s. <\/span><b>Financial liberalisation, economic globalisation, and market deregulation fostered an unprecedented expansion of capital markets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Meanwhile, wages grew at a much more moderate pace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Piketty\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Piketty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2013) \u201cLe Capital au XXIe si\u00e8cle\u201c a summarised this dynamic with an idea that has become an international reference: <\/span><b>when the return on capital consistently exceeds the growth of wages and the productive economy, wealth tends to become increasingly concentrated <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(r &gt; g). This is precisely what has happened over the last few decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who owned housing, shares or holdings have seen the value of their assets grow, but those <\/span><b>who only had their wages have had to face accumulated inflation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, considerable fiscal pressure and a continuous increase in essential goods. The consequence is that Western economies have progressively evolved into a heritage society, where asset ownership is increasingly determining rather than employability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Housing: The Great Factory of Inequality<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there is one element that exemplifies this transformation, it <\/span><b>is housing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades, buying a home was the main tool through which middle-class families accumulated wealth. Today, that possibility is slipping away for a growing share of the population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Housing prices have risen much faster than wages, especially in major metropolitan areas. <\/span><b>This forces many families to devote an ever-increasing proportion of their income to rent or mortgage payments<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The result is an increasingly visible social divide between property owners and non-owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former accumulate wealth thanks to the appreciation of real estate assets. The latter see <\/span><b>a significant portion of their income devoted to financing that same wealth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> without ever becoming its owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>When Inequality Stops Being Merely an Economic Problem<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extreme inequality is not just a matter of social justice. It is also <\/span><b>a matter of economic and democratic sustainability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/pubs\/ft\/sdn\/2014\/sdn1402.pdf?\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IMF<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the OECD have repeatedly warned that excessive wealth concentration tends to reduce long-term growth, limit social mobility, and weaken institutional cohesion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is another, even more worrying factor. When a significant share of the population perceives that working, studying, or making an effort no longer guarantees a real improvement in living conditions, trust in institutions deteriorates. <\/span><b>Social frustration increases, giving rise to phenomena such as political polarisation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, voter abstention, and the growth of populist movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History shows <\/span><b>that societies with extreme inequalities tend to be less stable and more vulnerable to episodes of social tension<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.It is no coincidence that this debate has returned to the centre of the international economic agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>The Risk of a New Economic Feudalism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some economists and sociologists warn that Western economies may be moving towards a structure that resembles certain features of pre-industrial societies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An increasingly small minority <\/span><b>concentrates productive and real estate assets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. An increasingly large majority depends exclusively on labour income to sustain its standard of living.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this scenario, inheritance regains growing importance, <\/span><b>social mobility declines, and economic opportunities tend to remain within the same family groups<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The risk is not only economic. It is also democratic. When wealth becomes concentrated, so too does the capacity to influence political, regulatory, and media decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no single or immediate solution. Governments can act through taxation, housing policies, business competition rules, and educational opportunities. <\/span><b>However, these reforms require political consensus and time<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, citizens face an immediate challenge: protecting the fruits of their labour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a world where inflation erodes the value of money, assets become more expensive, and wealth concentration continues to grow, <\/span><b>traditional saving alone is no longer enough<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is essential to understand how markets work, how to diversify assets, how to manage financial risks, and how to preserve wealth over time. Financial education ceases to be a complementary skill and becomes an economic defence mechanism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The great fracture of the 21st century is not only the one that separates rich and poor. It is also the one<\/span><b> that separates those who understand how money works from those who are forced to constantly react to the economic decisions made by others<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In a context marked by persistent inflation, global indebtedness, rising asset prices, and growing wealth concentration, financial knowledge is no longer optional\u2014it has become a necessity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Protecting savings with physical gold has been one of the main contributions of 11Onze to its community and, now, the range of products is expanded. Therefore, in the face of volatility, the still high inflation and the crisis of growing confidence in the banking system, gold is once again reinforced as a refuge value. 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