Gary Stevenson
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3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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I went back to my old high school as part of the documentary I've been making.
And what I found was most of the A level economics students there have given up on the dream of going to university.
What's interesting about that is if you go to LSE, which is the university I went to, it's enormously expanded in that time.
And that is true of most of the most elite universities in the country.
So how can it be that the universities have expanded massively and yet
ordinary poor people cannot afford to go to university anymore it is quite simply that you are competing with a super rich class who can pay enormous amounts to take those places so it's exactly the same as london housing basically they're going to squeeze you out of london housing they're going to squeeze you out of education another great example is healthcare so a lot of my friends from school became dentists dentistry i know some people here not watching from the uk dentistry is becoming increasingly inaccessible to ordinary british people at the same time as like you know
We continually increase the number of dentists and when I speak to my friends, you know, why is it that there's more dentists?
But dentists are unaffordable.
They're working privately for rich people, you know, they're doing Botox They're doing cosmetic procedures for rich people, you know rich people They don't just sit there and you know bountifully increase the economy They consume the things you need they consume the things you need and then you will eventually be in a situation where
For example, if you need end of life care, you know, if your kids need to go to university, if your kids need to live in London, the only way you will be able to maintain a decent standard of living for you and your family will eventually be to sell your assets to the rich.
So what I want to say is like the point I'm trying to make here is I know that some, especially like slightly richer people, maybe people whose families are worth, you know, one or two million pounds or even half a million pounds.
are often really against taxation of the rich and i understand why because they want to protect their assets i want to make it clear that that you if you are in that bracket you are probably the kind of person who really has the most to lose here when you see something happening like if you look at Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire and maybe you're thinking i'm excited my stock portfolio is going to go up if the billionaire class increases
I don't think anybody really has more to lose here than you because you are currently owning assets.
You are the kind of person who is about to be squeezed out of asset ownership and you and your kids and your grandkids will lose this sort of comfortable middle class life that you currently have.
So I don't like this current situation where sort of more middle class people are opposing wealth taxes.
It really is a sort of turkeys voting for Christmas.
I just want you to understand this simple thing, you know, if Elon Musk and the billionaires are growing their wealth at 40% a year,
in wealth that is growing only 1% a year, economy is growing only 1% a year, where do you think that wealth is going to come from?
It is going to come from you.
And increasingly, this wealth has been coming from governments, governments are becoming effectively bankrupted, and we are going to move into situations in the UK, we're kind of already there, where governments basically have only three options, the taxation of the very rich, the taxation of the sort of middle class, high-earning workers, or the shutting down of the welfare state.
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