Yes thats entirely the point. All these ketamine snorting tech bros have hyped each other up into believing they are the new aristocracy who deserve an underclass
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I know Gary likes to play dumb and assume this isn't actually the goal of the rich and powerful all along but they have been executing this class war now for 45 years. Its not like its new and its had universal support from every government since the early 1980s. It is what the ruling class wants, because they get to own everything and live even better. There is a reason you can't get Labour to do anything about it they have been pursuing this intentionally since the 2000s.
My brother in Christ, class war has been active for thousands of years.
Ever since the priests convinced others to work for them. The orginal lazy wealty class.
How does he play dumb?
I think he does so in that he makes it out as best as he can to not be left vs right as people have been propogandised as to what those terms mean, and he wants to appeal to the masses; but in practice it’s pretty left coded.
By not admitting this is actually something the government is intending and helping happen. He is treating the powerful as if they are unaware of the impact of what is clearly their chosen strategy and what will happen.
Isn't that explicitly the goal of alt-right "thinkers" like Yarvin and his "Dark Enlightenment" (not clever enough for "Endarkenment"?)? Peter Thiel hopes to apply/spread it to all Western civilizations, not just the US.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
He’s fucking right
Tax Wealth, or well shift from Trickle Down Economics to Robin Hood Economics, which usually doesn't turn out well for the leadership.
Taxing wealth strikes me as like trying to scoop out the ocean. We have to recreate beaver dams and restore the metaphorical flood plains. Spread out and soak in. The water table is going down and the land is subsiding; moving some water isn't enough.
How is a wealth tax just moving water? What would you say is more effective? A wealth tax isn't just about recapturing some of the wealth back from the wealthy, arguably that isn't even the most important aspect of it, but rather having the mechanisms in place to map out and track wealth. Having that in place would massively benefit us to understand the velocity of wealth and where exactly it is being accumulated so that we can more effectively act to remedy massive inequalities.
If you want to learn more, this video goes into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmK74mfpHQA
Me resisting the urge to explain how modern medieval historians consider feudalism to have never existed:
But yeah he's right. Or well something will give before that, but that's the limit state we're looking at.
This man is a clown and can safely be ignored without negatively affecting any part of your life.
It's a parody that this charlatan is making bank shilling populism to a magazine that is sold on the street by the homeless.
Listen to this self-aggrandising spiv winge about the "academics in their ivory tower" and how he's so smart that none of them take him seriously, while making a career out of surface level platitudes like the title. It's wild that anyone can listen to him without cringing out of their skull.
Apparently the hosts of that video you shared don't like graphs either because they covered the most critical part of the graph with their dumb grinning faces:
Gary has a point, there can be endless playing about with numbers, and looking at a single graph is not enough to draw a vast conclusion. How about we look at a stat from the same page that graph was pulled from?
and that stat highlights the point Gary was trying to make about looking at the wealth of the top 0.1% who are largely the ones taking wealth from everyone else, including from the rest of the top 10%. The host trying to pull a gotcha on Gary can't even read the graph he handpicked because he said that things are better now than in 1980 before trying to correct himself by saying "they're kind of like they were in 1980" even though actually the share of wealth for the top 10% was lower in 1980 and the share of wealth for the bottom 50% was higher.
On top of all that, the numbers end at 2020, which is right before plundering frenzy that the wealthy did thanks to all the money printing that took place during the pandemic. Here's the page with graphs and stats for anyone interested: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk/
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