Gabriel Zucman

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 197. The Billionaire Tax Debate (Gabriel Zucman) · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

No, 1.4% per year in growth since 1980.

And not only growth has declined, but it has become very unequally distributed.

For the working class, incomes have nearly stagnated.

For the super rich, there's been an explosion, a dramatic explosion of their income and their wealth, to such an extent that today, the wealth of, I don't know how you want to call them, the oligarchs, the top 0.0001% wealthiest Americans,

is equivalent to 14% of U.S.

GDP.

It was 3% at the height of the Gilded Age in 1900, in 1910.

So these are levels of concentration that have skyrocketed, that come with enormous forms of plutocratic capture on the U.S.

federal government.

We saw that when Musk had almost a candidate position with total freedom to slash

spending that he didn't like with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, DOJ.

So, look, the macroeconomic record of the U.S.

since 1980, since the Reagan experiment, is not good.

The main consequence that this has had has been an explosion of inequality with very worrying, in fact, dramatic, catastrophic consequences for

Not only U.S.

democracy, but for the world, frankly, because when they destroyed U.S.

aid, this implies millions of deaths, including of children of less than five years old all around the world.

So really catastrophic consequences for us.

And on the right.

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