Gary Stevenson

They don't have like the author's name next to the article.

Everything is just published officially by The Economist.

So we don't know specifically who writes it.

Obviously, The Economist will have an editorial line and they will probably tell the person who's writing it, you know, you have to be anti-wealth taxes.

So I suppose you could just argue, well, they're just delivering the line that they're given.

But, you know, in many cases, the people who, you know, I'm going out and I'm talking to politicians and I'm talking to civil servants, you know, I'm talking to senior members of important groups, you know, and think tanks.

And in many cases, these people

There's no way that they're worth more than £10 million.

£10 million is an enormous amount of money.

So what is it that is actually motivating these people to really go out to bat for the super rich?

Before I made this video in the last couple of days, I've been messaging a lot of people and trying to understand what actually is the psychology.

So, you know, if you're not from this world, which I increasingly am in, you may not be aware that once you go into sort of politics, think tanks, economics, academia, a lot of the more powerful voices do come from richer families and they are quite rich.

But, you know, 10 million pounds is an awful lot.

And most of these people are not worth that kind of money.

Sometimes I think they are influenced by like supporting their funders.

I think there's maybe like a little bit of sort of low key subconscious bootlicking going on, like, you know,

They've been they know that they don't want to piss off the rich.

They don't want to piss off the powerful You know, maybe their customers or maybe their funders are rich or powerful but I do think

that there is something sort of subconscious going on where these people who in many cases have worked hard to make a bit of money and they might be worth two or three or four million quid they've worked so hard to get that money that they just become incredibly protective of this idea which is we can never tax wealth because even though even though i'm talking about taxing over 10 they're just it's very sort of it's a little bit like

Gollum from Lord of the Rings, like my precious kind of thing.