Gary Stevenson
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He's paid, I think, something like $8 billion of tax, which means on his lifetime income, he's paid something like 3% on his whole lifetime income.
You're paying 50%.
His class is getting aggressively richer.
Your class is getting aggressively poorer.
You don't know these things.
And he's saying, listen, come with me.
I'll get richer and you'll get richer.
plays on is basically the fact that we all hate tax, we all hate politicians, we all hate the media,
And we're looking for somebody else who's gonna save us, right?
And I think this reminds me very much of basically what Elon Musk does and what Donald Trump does, where they portray themselves as, I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman, I know how to make money, come with me, I'll get rich, I'll make you rich.
And I think it would be too much to simply dismiss this, right?
You know, these guys, what they're trying to do
is portray themselves as the sensible guys in the room, the guys who are smarter than the politicians, and really, they're kind of fishing, you know, this is like $1,000 on the end of a hook, and they're hoping that you will bite that, and you will accept a system which is aggressively impoverishing you.
So when I see this, what it tells me is that, obviously, here in the UK,
The voice of the wealth tax movement is, is me and I run, I am, you know, a financial trader, and I run essentially this economics educational channel.
And everything I do is about educating the public, that if you don't want to get poorer, you have to tax the rich.
But in other countries like the US, where I'm not such a well known voice, a lot of the argument has been about fairness has been about justice.
And it is vulnerable to basically somebody who is a billionaire coming in and saying no, ignore that.
these guys aren't talking about how to make you rich, I will make you rich.