Peter Turchin explains the social-economic roots of UK and US crisis by violation of the existing social contract by rise of neoliberalism. This is pretty much what happened... but it's only half of the picture.
http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/the-structural-demographic-roots-of-the-uk-crisis/
A few years ago there was an industrial action at the railway in the UK where I listened to some union activist explaining all serious that you absolutely need a railway worked in each carriage to open and close door on each station and that's critical to the safety of the passengers
Which left me with my mouth wide open, because everywhere outside of UK and in some trains in UK you had doors opening and closing automatically for literally decades, and there's nothing "unsafe" in it.
