Gary Stevenson
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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So if you are somebody who is relatively comfortable and you do not want taxation of the very rich, I want you to understand you are effectively advocating directly for taxation of yourself.
the next point i want to make is you know you just cannot separate yourself from this you know once you see this the size of it the scale of it the rate of the growth of it i want you to realize you cannot separate yourself from this you are threatened by this and you know if we look at the last time we saw like real aggressive rapid wealth growth on this scale you're probably talking about the
the colonial period and the industrial revolution period in Europe in the sort of 1700s 1800s where we saw this like really aggressive rapid expansion of wealth ownership by the elites essentially in Europe and
you know if you look at what happened here what this shows us is compound interest is incredibly powerful if you allow it to grow unchecked it will inevitably take over the whole world you know and we saw that you know once european wealth starts to grow very very rapidly very very quickly it takes over the whole world and you know if you are over in china if you look at like
Big picture world history.
China has always been one of the massive population centers and technological centers and economic centers of the world.
And obviously, especially in the context of before plane travel, it was a long, long, long way away from Europe.
And they might have thought this aggressive growth of wealth in Europe is not a threat to us.
We're China.
We're incredibly powerful.
the Middle Kingdom we have this amazing amount of wealth and this history who cares if Europeans are getting rapidly rich and you know you might be thinking that now when you see this unbelievably rapid growth of Elon Musk you might be like well you know who cares about Elon Musk you know I'm sitting here I'm comfortable in my nice family house who cares if Elon Musk gets rich and then if you look at what happened you know back then
European growth goes very, very, very, very, very, very rapidly.
And they generate they start to create these incredibly efficient ways of producing goods and services.
And then suddenly they're going out there to China and India and they're able to produce goods and services enormously cheaper than these countries could at the time.
And, you know, this is so reminiscent of what is very possibly about to happen now with things like SpaceX and with things like AI.
You know, you might want to like bury your head in the sand and say, you know, who cares if Elon Musk gets rich?
He and the other very wealthy people are actively creating with their exponentially growing wealth systems that are going to outcompete you for your job.
So, you know, you know, and then the Europeans turn up, you know, in India and China with their factory produced goods.
You know, you can look into the history of sort of the cotton trade and the fabric trade is a good example of this.
Suddenly they're like, well, we can produce these things so much more than you.
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