Gary Stevenson
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5,834 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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You know, if I step back and I look at what's happened on whatever you want to call it, attacks, the rich movement or the anti inequality movement or the wealth tax movement in the last like two years, five years, 10 years.
Like if you'd have told me 10 years ago or five years ago or two years ago, we would be where we are now, where this issue is like constantly one of the big issues in politics when the economy is discussed, where like billionaires like Jeff Bezos would feel like they have to apply on it, where we're getting wealth taxes all over the world, even in countries which have right wing governments.
I wouldn't have believed you.
But I think the one thing which I've been trying to provide, which
we don't have enough of in other wealth tax movements around the world is this clear, simple economic message, which is the reason your living standards are falling is because of growing inequality.
And I think that is made clear
by Jeff Bezos saying exactly that in this interview, that taxing me doesn't solve anything.
It's not going to help that nurse in Queens.
We need to make the case that it does.
We need to make the case that it will.
And really the whole story of the history of this channel is me sort of every week trying to make that case in a different way.
I think if you weren't like one
simple video that you need to watch on this channel to understand why growing inequality is what is hitting living standards.
I would recommend watching the video from last year called The Squeeze Out, which basically explains that
You know, once you stop taxing rich people at high rates, which we did in the 80s, they start to generate an enormous amount of income.
They start to buy up the assets.
They get richer.
Asset prices go up more and more.
Ordinary people can't afford to buy assets anymore.
And eventually you see wealth, ownership,
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