Britain is unhappier at work than since records began(自有记录以来). The British Social Attitudes survey, the nation’s long-running annual pulse-taker(民意调查；脉搏测量者), finds growing job dissatisfaction in its report, published today. People complain of a lack of flexibility(灵活性) in working hours, a lack of career advancement(职业晋升) – and, of course, a lack of pay rises.
英国人的职场幸福感跌至有记录以来的最低点。作为英国长期进行的年度民意调查，《英国社会态度》在今日发布的报告中指出，工作满意度正在下降。人们抱怨工作时间缺乏弹性、缺乏职业晋升机会——当然，还有工资不涨。
Who is surprised? Pay stagnation(停滞) over the last decade is unprecedented(前所未有的) since Napoleonic times(拿破仑时代), the economist Paul Johnson told me, but then corrected himself: “You might as well say ever.” Worse, over the last year pay inequality has jumped up(急剧上升) for the first time in a decade, says the Resolution Foundation(决议基金会)’s Mike Brewer. Pay for the top 10% rose by 7.3% but only by 1.1% for the bottom 10%. Why? The national living wage has stopped rising faster than median(中位数的) pay, and top pay has taken off(起飞；猛增) again.
谁会感到惊讶呢？经济学家保罗·约翰逊告诉我，过去十年的工资停滞是自拿破仑时代以来前所未有的，但他随即纠正自己：“你不如说是有史以来。”更糟的是，决议基金会（Resolution Foundation）的迈克·布鲁尔表示，过去一年工资不平等十年来首次急剧上升。收入最高10%的人群工资上涨了7.3%，而最低10%的人群仅上涨1.1%。为什么？因为国家最低生活工资不再以快于中位数工资的速度上涨，而高收入者的工资又起飞了。
This gap in pay rises is the highest ever recorded. As ever, the wealth gap is even wider, the top 1% owning more than the whole bottom half.(一如既往，财富差距更为悬殊，最富有的1%拥有的财富超过底层一半人口的总和。) When incomes are rising, people may forget Britain’s extreme inequality, the highest in western Europe, which has never fallen after taking off stratospherically(天文数字般地) in the 1980s. But in these moribund(死气沉沉的) times, most see no upturn(好转；上升) on the horizon(即将出现；在地平线上). In high-growth 2006, only 25% of people told the BSA survey the government should shrink the gap(缩小差距) between rich and poor; now it’s 53%.
这一工资涨幅差距是有记录以来最大的。一如既往，财富差距更为悬殊，最富有的1%拥有的财富超过底层一半人口的总和。当收入普遍上涨时，人们或许会忘记英国极端的不平等——它是西欧最严重的，自1980年代天文数字般飙升以来从未下降。但在当前这种死气沉沉的时期，大多数人看不到任何好转的迹象。在高速增长的2006年，只有25%的人告诉BSA调查，政府应该缩小贫富差距；如今这一比例是53%。