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  1. TAX THE RICH!
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  2. To those suggesting Gary should go into politics. No he shouldn't. We don't need everyone who has the credibility and experience to debunk existing economic policies to do so, he's relaying these significant conclusions to everyone and it's up to us to elect and pressure the right people to implement these ideas in Policy. It's up to us to hold our elected political representatives to account, we can all do our bit, the way Gary is doing his.
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  3. If we listened carefully, over the last couple of weeks we have realised that (a) the person creating the video footage is actually a dentist and (b) he's called Simran. He's probably a mate in the same block doing a favour (or at mates-rates) rather than an external and faceless hired production team. So, hats off Gary AND Simran for producing useful information in your own time!
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  4. Did an accounting Degree. Had to study 'Trickle down economics.' called Bullshit on it at day one. Got told: "if you don't change attitude you wont pass, its a core subject.....
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  5. A clear explanation of the inequality of our country! Thanks Gary
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  6. I was a pretty staunch conservative until this year where I came across Gary's videos and then the accumulation of tory incompetence with the economy. The one thing they always touted were they were the 'responsible' party when it came to national economics... which is now HILARIOUS to think about after the disaster of Liz Truss and Kwasi...
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  7. Simple living, high thinking - great to see a humble person do so well.
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  8. 3 years on and you were correct.
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  9. Gary, you are f**king hero!! Never stop doing what you’re doing!!!
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  10. Feels like we are in the late stages of a multi generational game of Monopoly, we are at the point when one or two players have too much money flowing to them for anyone to have much of a chance. Each new generation is coming to the game when hotels are already established on every tile and there is a minimal and shrinking amount of opportunity. At some point the game is just gonna seize up because there is nothing left to be bled from the lower/middle earners when everything they have a realistic chance to earn is not enough to cover the debts demanded of them to simply exist in society by the rich.
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  11. I don't say this casually, but these 2 are representative of the best of Britain and the best of our generation
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  12. My grandparents owned a house, my parents rent, I live in overcrowded social housing. At this rate if I manage to have kids they'd probably be homeless. Thank you Gary and those behind the scenes for advocating for us. ❤
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  13. Terrific idea Gary. I'm financially illiterate but have learnt so much from your videos
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  14. I was the Citibank (Auckland) FX forwards (overnight -1 year swaps) trainee >>> trader 1993 - 1996. Your book floored me but didn't surprise me. Well done for writing it. Not sure if people can really understand the trading room/treasury/corporate banking environment until they've been there. But I guess that's the same for everything, innit?
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  15. Gary, it'd be great if, occasionally, you could do videos "debunking" the economic opinions we always hear on programs like BBC's Politics Live and Question TIme etc. There's so much disinformation being spun that gets no pushback from hosts and journalists. Of course, it would mean you'd actually have to watch the programs which I know is painful!
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  16. Congratulations on 4 years speaking out on a truth many do not want to hear.
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  17. Probably if not definitely the most important and informative video ever posted on YouTube. Thank you for speaking out and explaining this catastrophic situation so simply and eloquently. It would have been very easy for someone in your financial position to just sit back and do nothing, the fact you continue to beat the drum is testament to your character and integrity. Keep up this vital work. You are the hero this country/world needs.
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  18. Gary has the amazing ability to see the details and the overall picture and connect them together in meaningful ways. We need this man so much now.
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  19. As a PhD in Economics, I can swear Gary is 100% right on this
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  20. Heya, an old regular viewer here from Mexico. What you explain today, this happened in my lifetime in my country twice (or 3 times, we discuss still when was the end of one crisis) and we became tied to such a huge debt that no mater how much we increased productivity (with terrible working conditions for the people, people loosing their homes, loans they ended up paying 3 or 4-fold, privatization of from around 500 state companies to having a hand full that over time were left to become shambles (including our national petrol company), massive migration and entry of remittances, exporting everything we possibly can, etc...) we are still just paying the interest on the debt, have not scratched the debt from the 80s and 90s at all. It forced our society to such extreme pain we ended up with at the time the richest man in the world and a country with over 60% poverty and of that 30% in misery (the ultra-poor)... It is baffling to me that 2 decades later, some of rich countries got into the same bondage structure, little by little, it's as if they are not realizing what they have been doing, or, it is on purpose. I really enjoy your channel! Take care
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  21. On ITV debate, the labour representative actually got challenged by someone about inequality and if they would tax the ultra-wealthy to fund their tax cuts, she just kept silent and just ignored that it was a thing so I reckon there are some ultra-wealthy individuals which are financing the labour party.
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  22. Gary could you breakdown clearly firstly who is Government paying the interest to and secondly the source of the money that the Government borrows - this would really help fill in the whole picture for many of us. TIA
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  23. I agree 100% with everything you say. I owned a cab office for 19 years and during the 2000s I had over 100 drivers and the business was thriving but now recently I was forced to close my business because I can no longer compete with Uber. This multibillion business destroyed us
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  24. I'm self employed and a single parent. I'm also too old to become rich or financially very comfortable. But my son & daughter still have a chance, so I'll pass on this video to them, hoping that they'll get your message. Thank you for your videos xx
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  25. You have a great gift for explaining these problems with such clarity. I really hope that your channel continues to gain traction and this message, essentially the truth laid bare of what's happening, reaches more and more people.
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  26. Thank you for your honesty Gary and for not using your success to prey on vulnerable people like all the other YouTube money voices out there.
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  27. This lecture is by far Gary’s best - stick with it !
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  28. The other thing that seems to be a trend in a lot of debates on this subject (including this one) seems to be that the opposition very quickly turns to "oh, you're just going to take ALL the money away? Confiscate it like in the French revolution?" ...tax is somehow only just when applied to the poor and full on robbery when applied to the rich. The psychosis runs deep. I imagine that getting 10% less of a 2bn PURE PROFIT is not going to dissuade any tycoon from 'trying their best'.. (personally I would be ok with only 1.8!). But 200mil in public spending changes lives.
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  29. People of the UK are really lucky to have you Gary. I mean it. I hope you reach your goals and show others that we do not have to put up with broken system any longer
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  30. Gary drops these videos on Sunday mornings like a sermon from a pastor 😂 I'm a British-Ghanaian, and Ghana is horrendously unequal, poor, and the real estate sector is booming. The apartments being built are small in comparison to traditional Ghanaian homes, and start at $50k. Increasingly, the home owners in Accra are diasporans like my family, renting to local people, who are totally priced out. My relatives went to Ghana to work for think-tanks and paid nothing in Ghanaian income tax. Nothing works in Ghana, nothing. Even with an income of £40-50k, you're struggling for everything, because the infrastructure is awful. No water for days on end, you rely on a poly tank. You need a generator for electricity. My sister was electrocuted because there was a surge in the local grid that is poorly maintained. There's no proper road in many places. British people today have no idea what awaits them if they allow inequality to cannibalise their economy.
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  31. It is worse than that. In the US it used to be that one income could support a home, a car, a stay at home wife, kids, a modest yearly vacation, and modest savings. Today two people working can't even pay the bills. Many people have to have a full time and a part time job just to cover the basics. In the US if the minimum wage had kept up with inflation it would be over $20 an hour now and yet many people today feel that $20 an hour is a reasonable wage because many employers are paying less. Jobs used to give you a pension plan and free healthcare that took care of the basics such as a yearly physical exam, and regular basic visits to the doctor.Today business has gotten rid of pension and the free medical plan you get with your job if you get one has deductibles and co-pays so high you can't afford to go to the doctor.. You used to get a paid 1 hour lunch and coffee breaks. Now you get a 1/2 hour unpaid lunch. You used to get holiday pay and if you worked the holiday you would be paid time and 1/2. Many companies today make you take your accrued vacation days if you take a holiday off and only regular pay if you do work the holiday. All of this while corporations profits are through the roof,
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  32. It took me 10yrs post-university to unpack the complex algebra and realise it’s largely irrelevant and conceptually straight forward (I work in economics for a living) then start challenging the assumptions. The political & media class drive me nuts with their blatant self interest, complicit stupidity & naive impact assessment. You hit the nail on the head with this piece. One of your best.
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  33. I’m a primary school teacher in East London and every day I see how children are drawn to the idea of doing good and being kind to others. The reality is that these young souls and minds are growing up in a city saturated with marketing, depicting a world they feel they need to aspire to. While at the same time, growing up with real hardship so, the idea of making lots of money for oneself is going to be the number one priority. I don’t know how we can say to people who have grown up in poverty or hardship that some of the aspirations that are out there are false ones. Those who are wealthy can do their bit to help, however benevolence is not and should never be the preserve of the rich! How can those who live in poverty be more empowered and gain more agency? Education is one way. The question is, how, in this current system?
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  34. You're right they are going to hate you for this. You're also correct. Thank you
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  35. You're one of those people that slightly restores my faith in humanity. Keep it up!
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  36. Gary, you are planting gardens under whose shade you might not sit. You are keeping alive the idea that there is an alternative, and what we do is a choice. We can choose to do differently. Thank you for what you do.
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  37. Yours is a lifetime goal Gary, don't give up, you can do this. We support you 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
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  38. gary your last point about mental health and poverty made me start crying. i'm one of those young people who's slid down a poverty/debt hole due to all the shenanigans of this last decade, and you pointing out that this is gonna be a long game really hit me. we gotta look out for each other and keep remembering that if we live in a system we made that means we can make a different one. in the meantime sometimes it's just really fucking hard to get out of bed in the morning to keep trying while shit is this rigged, and i guess i just appreciate you acknowledging that. keep up the good fight gary, thanks for who you're choosing to be.
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  39. I'm an American who's made it my personal mission to share your channel and message with as many people who will listen to me. I wake up every morning terrified since Trump took office. But I realize the fear is what they want. Fear stops us from acting, and is especially stops us from acting rationally. I will not be silenced and I will continue spreading this truth. It's not red or blue, it truly is the extremely wealthy versus everyone else.
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  40. I've always said this, and I am delighted to hear Gary speak about it. If you've got a mortgage, you're not a honeowner; you're a loan owner.
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  41. Proud subscriber to the Patreon, I login every day and it’s really nice to see a very positive community developing already. Including a tool to email your local MP developed by one of the members. Let’s do this!
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  42. Very informative Gary thank you, your patents must be so proud of you , not because you made so much money but because despite that youve decided to come back and fight for us, the world got lucky a boy from humble backround breached the barrier and made it to the other side and decided it wasnt any better , they werent counting on you being a good person , keep it up Gary ❤❤
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  43. You have no idea how grateful I am for you doing what you're doing, thank you Gary, keep it going.
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  44. Thank you for this Gary. I've never had a pot to piss in my whole life. I've managed to pay off the mortgage on the council house I lived in all my life. I'm 53, disabled, and genuinely worried about my future. God bless.
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  45. I was a child that had opportunity after opportunity my whole life, but for some reason I didn’t try hard or take those opportunities. I fell into what you might call a “bad” crowd. Basically my friends were just poor and had nothing, but were nice to me so I hung around with them. No matter how hard I tried to self destruct my own life, no matter how much trouble I got into, I still managed to get a decent job in insurance at 18 thanks to who my dad was. I did everything in my power to try and throw that job away but I was never sacked, because of my dad. Eventually around 24 years old I woke up and decided to start trying. By this time all the poor kids I was friends were drug addicts, homeless, dead, or in prison. Im under no illusion that the only reason that didn’t happen to me is because I am from a richer family. That’s why I feel passionately the gap between rich and poor needs to be closed. Get this speech played in every secondary school in the country. Adults have selective hearing, let’s start shaping the minds of the children who will listen. Tax the ridiculously wealthy.
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  46. It's not about left and right it's about rich and poor.
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  47. Great to have you back, Gary. Not only do you need employees but a team around you to support you. The stronger you grow, the more the 'money' is going to come after you, smear you, try and bring all you have down. If you are going to go for it, then you need to do it in fast time and get more economists, financial experts, or celebrities on board, so it's not just you taking the flack. Anyhow, you'll have my monthly support for the future as I believe that this is the only way we will ever stop the rapidly increasing decline in all aspects of our society.
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  48. I went to Oxford age 18, from a comprehensive in 1994, and it was the biggest eye-opener of my life when it came to class, power and money. It's a great experience in terms of giving you confidence to stand by your opinions, and I made a few very good friends. But I honestly never realised before going there how the rich elite look down on the rest of us. People would introduce themselves by their schools and would immediately become friends, and do a kind of bemused sneer at the few of us not from that clique. For a couple of years I thought to myself that if I had kids I would definitely send them to public school, so they could be on the 'inside'... but then I realised how corrupt and poisonous the whole system is, and I evolved to thinking that we just need to ban all public/private schools in the UK. It's at the root of so many societal problems. I think Oxford gives you a great academic, critical thinking discipline. But they are in their own academic bubble... for postgrad I am doing my masters with the Center for Alternative Technology in Wales (I am more biology/food focused), which is both academic and politically radical, and a much more enjoyable experience!
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  49. I’m not an economist, I’m someone with an economics degree who runs a joinery business but I have always maintained an interest in economics and politics over the last 30 years. Never did we once cover or discuss inequality during my time at university, never have I read about inequality in any meaningful way in any economics journal. For someone like myself who is probably more savvy with regard to economics than the average person on the street, this channel is quite an eye opener, keep up the good work.
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  50. "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." Nicholas Klein
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