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EPISODE · May 15, 2026 · 35 MIN

Episode 23: The Biggest Lie Middle-Class Parents Are Told

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What if middle-class parents are sacrificing everything… for the wrong future?In Episode 23 of Taxed & Taken: The Podcast They Don’t Want You To Hear, we explore one of the biggest assumptions in modern Britain:Is private school really the ultimate investment in your child’s future?Or has society confused educational prestige with financial freedom?This episode explores:The true £500,000+ cost of private educationWhy high salaries no longer guarantee freedomThe debt conveyor belt trapping modern familiesThe difference between raising workers vs raising ownersHow £9,000 invested yearly from birth could potentially become £1.5 million by age 34Why ownership increasingly matters more than credentialsThis is not an attack on education.It’s a deeper conversation about:freedom,debt,ownership,modern parenting,and what a true “head start” in life really looks like.Because maybe the greatest inheritance is not status…but freedom. Get full access to Taxed & Taken: Money, Power & Freedom from the State at patelankeet.substack.com/subscribe

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