Simon Johnson
speaker
295 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Simon Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've been in Sheffield for a long time.
I lost the accent when I got out.
The decline of the British aristocracy did not cause any heartache in my part of Sheffield, I can tell you that.
The fact that all those beautiful houses are now owned by the National Trust, everyone can go visit the garden and so on, what a fantastic outcome.
So yes, and as you know, that was what the wealth distribution was all about.
And that was handled by state taxes and also the effect of World War I and so on.
So yeah, over time, I think established wealth, inherited wealth is pretty unappealing.
But you do want to encourage the entrepreneurs.
You do want innovation.
You want a lot more demis sabises, I would say.
And, you know, if Demis Hassabis, I haven't talked to him, but I've talked to him, but not about his tax rates.
But you probably don't want to tax capital and labor and talented labor more than it's taxed in Silicon Valley, for example, because that's the competition, isn't it?
But I think we can have it both ways.
I don't think that solves everybody's fiscal problems, including in the United States, for example.
But I think it's a fair component of what we need to do.
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