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The thing that moved many Brits out of squalor was the welfare state (including free grants for further education) built after the war. Amongst other things, that dramatically upskilled the workforce, enabling an unprecedented growth period. Sadly, the last four decades have mostly been dominated by delusional nationalists who believe that the prosperity that followed WWII emerged from natural Britishness (when all the historical evidence of life before WWII shows it really fucking wasn't). So they've been happily selling of the things that fuelled that growth, while deskilling and disenfranchising the workforce.
Responsible capitalism was a part of the growth. Now disaster capitalism is all we're left with, dressed up in the stolen valour of Dunkirk by self-interested sociopaths like Johnson and Farage.