"Welcome to 2025". A cautionary tale of middle-class impoverishment by Alex Groundwater

Alex Groundwater is a good friend from early school days, one of the rare ones I have kept in touch with. He describes himself as: "A Gen-X data enthusiast. Helping Bio-Techs build labs and manufacturing facilities for T Cell cancer therapies. mAB 🐀, reader, maths literate!" I often refer to him, not seriously, as my "quant guy" on YouTube videos. He wrote this short story about the income destruction of an imaginary wealthy middle class couple living in London to demonstrate the potent...