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- Robert Reich argues that focusing on corporate profit has driven societal decline in the United States and United Kingdom.
- He traces the US decline to Ronald Reagan, while paralleling the UK to Margaret Thatcher's deregulation and privatization.
- The shift has yielded increased inequality, stagnant wages, and a greater reliance on food banks.
- Critics Tony Rowlands and Kate Purcell call for societal change and warn against foreign ownership of the NHS.
