Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But here's another much simpler point from Malcolm Gladwell.
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Maybe talented people just practice more and try harder at the thing they're already good at because they enjoy it.
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Thanks to Malcolm Gladwell, David Epstein and, of course, Dan McLaughlin.
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Somewhere out there, even as you hear this programme, he's notching up the hours on a lonely fairway.
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We'll be back next week.
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Until then, if there's a number you want us to investigate, please email us at moreorless at bbc.co.uk.
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No, I haven't.
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Charlotte, if we look at the top rate of tax, according to the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has crunched the numbers for the G20 nations, there are some stark differences.
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In Italy, someone earning $400,000 would pay nearly 50% of their total income in tax.
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But someone on the same salary in Saudi Arabia pays only 3%.
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In most of these rich nations, you pay between 30% and 45%.
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Yes, and in a way, that's the key point.
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The PwC figures I just mentioned have taken care of those differences by figuring out the total tax burden.
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But if you look at what you have to earn to be on the top tax rate, the differences are massive.
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In Denmark, you pay 60% tax on earnings over $60,000.
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And in the US, for comparison, the top rate, about 40%, kicks in at around $400,000.
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Poor old Danes.
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Well, perhaps, although they were ranked the happiest country in the whole world in last year's World Happiness Report.
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The tricky thing about all this is that it's actually pretty hard to compare tax rates.
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Income tax is only one tax.
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