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  1. "The guy who makes $ 700/h convinced the guy who makes $ 24/h that his problem is the guy who makes $ 7.90/h."
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  2. John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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  3. "when the poor have nothing left to eat, they'll eat the rich". Not advice, just a recipe suggestion.
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  4. I will say this again. Gary needs a comms team to turn this info into trendy and digestible content and flood the market. In the game of narratives it is the loudest that wins.
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  5. “How do you get rich? You get rich by working together” now that’s a great quote and tells a story about individualism and how it’s made us forget the strength of community like a form of depoliticisation.
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  6. Tax work less, tax wealth more. That is the takeaway.
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  7. You can tell Gary is rich because he puts his biscuits on a plate
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  8. To my own research In USA, individuals living in cars due to partial homelessness result from a complex interplay of factors. High housing costs relative to income, stagnant wages, and income inequality drive this issue. Job loss, weak social support, medical expenses, evictions, and lack of affordable housing also contribute, while systemic problems and inadequate policies further perpetuate the phenomenon.
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  9. "If you hate each other, they win - If you work together, we win" - keep that as a mantra
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  10. I am 70yrs of age, I want YOU - Gary to know that I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the work you do. If only people would listen? If only governments were honest and had the balls to listen to YOU and others. Thank You Gary, take care soak up support and hold on to friends... Hold on tight to your dreams... I have been fighting the fight against inequality all my working life - it does have a profound impact upon a person... but we must simply remember we must do the Right Thing.
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  11. I bought my house 9 years ago, it has nearly doubled in value. I could not afford to buy my own house now, that means I am poorer than I was 9 years ago.
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  12. This guy is like your mate that you only know from raves who also happens to give economic advice.
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  13. Hi Gary, PhD in Economics + Lecturer at a top UK university (which shall remain nameless). I cannot begin to express how sad and frustrating it is for me (and most of my peers) to not be able to talk about this. Although a lot of research has been done on both, inequality and environmental costs... both continue to be excluded from ALL main economic data. The fact that we keep using GDP in its current format as out main economic indicator is beyond insane... but fact of the matter is universities in the US and the UK have become corporations, and research has become, for many, a launching pad into the private sector. The academic establishment has ZERO ties with real life workers unions or climate experts for example... zero coordination, and zero sense of social responsibility. I feel ashamed for our profession at this point... EDIT (I did not expect so many people to engage with my comment... thank you): Just to clarify, In hindsight, my choice of words when I said we are not allowed to talk about these things was poor. There is no conspiracy to silence anyone!!! What I meant is that, just like in every area of academia, there are very clear and structured paths to climbing up the employment ladder and it is to say the least skewed in favour of somewhat derivative research with solid methodology that awards as many points as possible. This inevitably penalises anyone who wants to (for example as many of you have suggested in the comments) pursue collaborative research with environmentalists, sociologists, NGOs etc. Top economic journals will never publish your work meaning you will be at a serious disadvantage when competing for jobs/grants. Also, I want to make it very clear I am in no way suggesting that more mainstream economic research is bad or false!!!!
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  14. Hi Gary, Im the Deputy Leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland and we have supported the introduction of a wealth tax for over ten years. Your channel gave me personally the ability to articulate this in a clear and understandable way. There is a lot of work to he done to undermine the years of indoctrinated belief in the current system but this is a brilliant start.
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  15. I think one problem is that the rich are good at making themselves and their obscene wealth invisible, whereas immigrants are highly visible. How to make the rich visible?
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  16. „Vibes are off“ = entire governments gaslighting us collectively. I love the fact how media outlets increasingly release formats around personal finances. You CANNOT budget your way out of poverty ffs.
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  17. Just to draw out a point Gary was starting with; the rich aren’t competing with you for your pub, or laundrette, they want the land to rent back to your pub before developing it into a spa or a gated community. Neither of which bring you anything you can afford or use.
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  18. Hi Gary. I’m 17. Doing A-levels in History, Maths and Economics at a grammar school. I’ve been watching your channel for a couple of years now. My economics teacher showed some of your content to the class at the start of the year and relayed your messages. He told us that we’d all struggle to buy houses in the future. I’ve had some conversations with fellow students about economics and politics. The overwhelming majority don’t know or care about wealth inequality. Immigration is the main talking point - everyone seems to ‘know’ a lot about that. I picked up a copy of your book over Christmas with some book tokens I won and have nearly finished it now. It’s fascinating and really crystallises the points made in your videos. Thank you for the videos and know that your messages are spreading!
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  19. This is an absolutely brilliant breakdown of the situation. Videos like this cut through all spin and BS of the press!
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  20. I’d like to add: Ignore the culture wars, if you’re angry at immigrants, woke and trans people, you’re fighting the wrong battle - it’s ALWAYS been a class war
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  21. I´m from Germany and seeing him talk to the head of a German right-wing party (AFD) was so confusing to me first because I didn't see the reason why. After watching the video, it makes so much sense especially from Musks point of view. I just wonder how so many people blindly follow him and don't question the nonsense they gonna vote for. Scary times also here in Germany
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  22. Hi Gary, as a retired Finance Director, this is how I explain the growth in wealth inequality: In the early 70’s there were just 2-3 Billionaires on earth, and people could name them (Howard Hughes, John Paul Getty). In the past 50 years, the world’s population has doubled from 4Bn to 8Bn, but there are also now around 3,000 Billionaires. On a planet of finite resources, that clearly shows how wealth has been transferred . This example is one of the few that I find really resonates .
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  23. This movement is gaining momentum. Thank you Gary for leading the way. A lot of people usually shy away from inequality conversations for fear of being shamed by so called "experts" when they really are just speaking from their biases and not from hard data
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  24. Just been watching sky news for 10 minutes. Came here to recover from that experience
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  25. I'm a bookseller and i'm going to be doing everything i can to push this book into the hands of as many people as possible. Really important we get this message out there ✊
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  26. Gary nails it—this rentier economy has turned ownership and hard work into relics of the past. Like Yanis Varoufakis points out, this isn’t capitalism in its original sense; it’s a parasitic system designed to extract wealth rather than create it. The middle class is being squeezed, not because they’re lazy, but because the rules of the game have changed. We’re forced to rent everything—homes, jobs, even our futures—while the owner class rakes in profits from systems they didn’t build, exploiting our labor and resources. And then they preach about ‘hard work,’ as if it means anything in a rigged game. This isn’t progress—it’s neo-feudalism, and it’s dismantling the social contract piece by piece.
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  27. A man that could use his time on making millions of dollars chooses to use his time to inform and help people that really are in need. Be proud of your work because the world needs this.
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  28. Gary has the heart of a revolutionary He is, in my opinion one of the most important voices globally at the moment.
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  29. My favourite advice story is this: I was trading, and making a bit of money doing it around the GFC. There was lots of stock available, and discounted share sales etc. A friend asked me for advice. I was hesitant, but I said "here's a mining services stock. It's a shitty company and 50/50 chance of going bankrupt, so do the smallest bet possible and assume the money is already gone, but it could go up a lot." Well the friend bought in. Then the price went up 20X. A few years later the friend said "I've got a bone to pick with you, the stock you recommended went bankrupt!" I replied with "so you didn't sell in the several years that it was 20X?" Even when you give Nostradamus-level advice, you are on the hook for the bad and never the good. Don't give advice unless it's "Don't trade. If you are asking for advice, you are going to fuck it up."
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  30. People have been saying that Youtube was dying and yet here you are increasing viewers every week. Youtube is not dying, people are just tired of influencers selling lives that nobody can afford, while our economies are collapsing. We needed this channel so much.
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  31. I am an Economics Professor from Germany. I am a big fan. Thank you for educating society.
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  32. American viewer here. I feel like a lot of the stuff you talk about applies over here as well I appreciate your educational videos
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  33. "Poverty exists not because we can't meet the needs of the poor but because we can't meet the greed of the rich."
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  34. Have you tried joining a game of Monopoly half way through? Even though you play by the same rules than the others, it is near impossible to succeed once they have bought all the assets and you pay rents everywhere. Well, it's the same in real life guys...
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  35. The people need to realise it’s a Top vs. Bottom & not a Left Vs. Right Issue. That’s when things will change.
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  36. Mum! The new Gary's Economics just dropped!
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  37. You killed it on Piers Morgan Gary. These talking heads didn't stand a chance against you
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  38. Because they are a largely wealthy group, they don’t see inequality day-to-day and they don’t care
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  39. I sit with my granddaughter who is 16. Her generation have been purposely absent from engaging with politics, economy and how wheels can turn ever so unfairly. We watch your vids together and we pause them as you raise each issue and we talk about it between us, learning and growing, and then push play again...rinse and repeat. You are education a whole new generation my friend. In my granddaughters eyes you bring real to reality. Bless you mate.
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  40. I bloody love Gary! I’m not sure the last time the panel spoke to a real person or a person without a hidden agenda but they looked scared to speak in front of him as they knew he’d call them out. We need more of Gary on these shows! Great job ❤❤❤
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  41. Mad Garry seen the other side of the fence and jumped back over to try help people. How many of us would have lived on in comfort and ease in his position? Instead he's out here trying to effect positive change. A rare breed.
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  42. Don't worry. A bloke who did PPE at Oxford will soon be replaced as Chancellor by a woman who did PPE at Oxford. Nothing can go wrong.
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  43. "Highly unequal countries don't have cute little towns for ordinary people, they have slums for ordinary people." Well put.
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  44. Lets go brother 💪💪
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  45. I’m really glad you’ve been making the rounds on a bunch of other channels. I feel like you’ve really helped to get inequality into the minds of so many more people. This could just be me in my echo chamber but I genuinely think the narrative is starting to shift for the better.
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  46. Before the election I made a concerted effort to ask my local candidates their position on taxing wealth. What I found most shocking is they had no idea what wealth means and had the same understanding that if you tax them they will leave. Great video Gary
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  47. Could say that you had 2020 vision 🥁
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  48. Taking away council housing, libraries, community centres, school programs, social services... all these things used to be hubs of activity between residents of the community who raised their families side by side. Think about why they have taken all that away. Most of us dont even speak to our neighbours. Its got to change. we are so powerful together.
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  49. Gary, psychologist here. What you're describing in the first section is the very definition of a field that is trapped by within a "paradigm", in the original meaning of the term: an organized system of knowledge, practices, and beliefs that is used to make sense of the world. They have been trained to be very effective at thinking within the boundaries of this paradigm, but in order to do that they've been convinced that the only things that are worth thinking about are things that fall within the paradigm. This hit me personally because I've had arguments about inequality with trained economists who use macroeconomic indicators to argue that poor people are just whining over nothing. And when I point out that what they're basically describing is trickledown economics they look like they've blown a fuse, and rapidly change the subject. Thank you for the video. Please keep them coming.
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  50. This is so important, some people think we live in a meritocracy but people can work hard their whole lives and save, be productive, building things that grow the economy etc and still end their lives close to 0. While people born into a rich family just accumulate wealth through their investments. Compound interest is the reason people starting at 0 can't compete with people starting at 1 million. It's not just that they have catching up to do, but that every second the gap is increasing.
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