Curbs extreme inequality
Concentrated wealth is economically destabilising and politically corrosive; a wealth tax rebalances economic power.
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The case for taxing wealth, argument by argument.
Concentrated wealth is economically destabilising and politically corrosive; a wealth tax rebalances economic power.
“it's really really important that we introduce attacks into the system which can effectively target not just high earning workers but the very very rich”
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 million years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
While working people struggle to get by, the billionaire class is becoming the TRILLIONAIRE class.
If he's right, our country's wealth could get sucked up by a handful of billionaires while workers get left behind.
“most importantly they're the only thing really which can stop living standards from falling in the long term.”
“if you don't act on inequality their living standards will fall”
“So you you are convinced inequality is is increasing aggressively. Well when you look at those numbers you know it's pretty difficult to to to claim that it's i”
“If it is not inequality, tax the rich, living standards, what the is it? It has to be tax wealth not work.”
“Every single crisis ends up with an enormous amount of money piling up with the rich. Massive increase in inequality, massive increase in wealth and power of th”
“we want to stop the growth in wealth inequality, we want to stop the growth in economic inequality, we want to improve living standards”
“And it isn't until you see the really significant redistribution of wealth in and in the immediate aftermath of World War II that you see like the really signif”
“I think this idea that no economic economist support it is just wrong. It's as simple as that, right? So I mean I don't I don't know really when you dig behind ”
“The primary thing, the main thing that matters on improving your living standards for your family over time is wealth inequality and wealth taxes.”
“But in a way that caused enormous negative side effects, namely a massive decrease in government wealth, a massive increase in the wealth of the richest, and ob”
“We moved from a country with really terrible broad desperate poverty to one which provided a good decent standard of living to the vast majority of people. And ”
“As inequality increases, as you and the government have less wealth and the rich have more wealth, the only possible way for you to get public services is for t”
“Living standards are falling because of growing wealth inequality. If you don't fix wealth inequality, if you don't fix the tax system, living standards will fa”
“This problem of weakening economy, falling living standards, has basically been experienced by every government in the UK for the last 15 years.”
“if you do not take action on massively increased inequality inability to tax the rich you will end up in a situation where basically you have no choice but to e”
“instituting these wealth taxes is not only about arresting that deeply and quickly growing wealth inequality but it's also about bringing back into the collecti”
“When the super rich get really really When the super rich get really really rich, it has an impact on you.”
“housing will become less affordable unless we deal with the problem of rapidly increasing wealth of the rich.”
“If you do not deal with growing inequality, the living standards of your kids and your grandkids will get worse and worse and worse and worse.”
“their living standards are getting worse their living standards are getting worse their living standards are getting worse is because of growing inequality.”
“dealing with inequality, dealing with an dealing with inequality, dealing with an dealing with inequality, dealing with an unfair taxation system.”
“primary economic concern is is growing wealth inequality. I'm very confident on that.”
“Growing inequality of wealth is destroying the economy and pretty much everything that happens can be predicted by understanding what will happen with growing i”
“You know, as these guys billionaires. You know, as these guys billionaires. You know, as these guys get richer and richer and richer and get richer and richer a”
“Everybody was talking about wealth taxes. Everybody was constantly asking politicians, why don't you do something about wealth taxes? Why don't you do something”
“structural crisis of growing wealth inequality. The middle class, the working class are getting squeezed out. The rich are accumulating it.”
“How do we effectively get wealth back from the very rich or at the very least stop them from taking more of our wealth?”
“Inequality is increasing really, really quickly. The rich are rapidly increasing their wealth. It's squeezing everybody out. It's destroying the middle class. I”
“Do you think AI will help or hinder social inequality? Yeah, I think it'll make it much much worse.”
“wealth distribution is just going out of control”
“this concept that what we were actually in economically was a structural crisis of growing inequality, that the bottom 90% was having their wealth kind of aggre”
“If you do not get systems in place such that you can tax the very rich whilst their wealth is aggressively growing every single group of society including the m”
“The problem with a crisis of inequality The problem with a crisis of inequality which is as you say if if you have a which is as you say if if you have a broad ”
“growing wealth inequality is, is totally ******* up living standards. it's going to make your kids poor and your grandkids poor, and I want, at the very least, ”
“If you do not deal with this rapidly growing inequality of wealth, the economy will collapse and you guys will get absolutely smashed at the next election.”
“The reason house prices are expensive is because the rich are really really really really really rich now and you can't compete with them and unless you do some”
“I am trying to stop the redistribution that is bankrupting ordinary people.”
“If we do not deal with this crisis of worsening and worsening inequality, it will get worse and worse inequality, it will get worse and worse inequality, it wil”
“the core of the economic crisis is growing wealth inequality and none of these politicians none of these political ideologies are willing to even really talk ab”
“the reason we are getting poorer is because of this massive growth in inequality and we're not gonna fix that unless we stop that inequality from growing the in”
Is it right that the top 10% richest people own 57% of the wealth in this country? That is inequality. It's wrong.
“I think this crisis of wealth inequality will get worse. I think it's, it's really going to... It's already decimated the working classes in the West. I think i”
“I think the squeeze out is a focus on really the most damaging and most dangerous direct consequence of wealth inequality for ordinary people, which is that the”
“this growth in wealth inequality it is this growth in wealth inequality it is going to keep the middle class and the going to keep the middle class and the goin”
“the growing wealth of the richest listen as the richest get richer and richer and as the richest get richer and richer and as the richest get richer and richer ”
“I want to stop increasing inequality. I want to try to stop falling living standards.”
“it was a period of time we protected a broadly equal wealth distribution and taxed the rich at very high rates.”
“why are we not talking about inequality as the cause for poverty make it common sense of course poverty make it common sense of course poverty make it common se”
“So for now, we need to focus on getting some form of change, because if we spend all of our time arguing about the specific form of the change, we wont get anyt”
“understands we need to deal with understands we need to deal with understands we need to deal with inequality to protect our living inequality to protect our li”
“The only way to fix this is to change the tax system, to stop taxing ordinary people so much, and tax the super rich more. If we do that, we can improve economi”
“inequality is destroying the economy”
“the reason that families are losing their homes and the reason that governments are going bankrupt is because the wealth that used to be being held by ordinary ”
“The only way to fight it is to rebalance power. It's to increase tax on the rich. It is to decrease taxes on ordinary families.”
“both of these leaders despite in theory sitting on opposite sides of the political Spectrum will oversee a continued increase in inequality”
“If you don't deal with that, then living standards will continue to fall for the poor and for ordinary people. You simply have to deal with the growing inequali”
“do you not think there might be a deeper not think there might be a deeper not think there might be a deeper problem with inequality”
“if we can reduce inequality, if we can raise people's living standards, you'll probably find less racists, and you'll probably find that people get along, maybe”
“The way to keep your house, if you are a middle class person, is to protect the middle class from the rapidly growing wealth of the rich. You have to stop that ”
“If you allow the super rich to get even richer and you allow the middle class to lose their assets, they will increasingly outcompete you for the things that yo”
“inequality is a danger for you and your inequality is a danger for you and your inequality is a danger for you and your family these guys are going to take the ”
“The reason they will fail to fix the economy is because they are not dealing with the fundamental problem, which is growing wealth inequality.”
“channel and see me supporting wealth taxes and increased tax on the rich and trying to reduce inequality, might have assumed that I was some big Labour supporte”
“inequality is rising and Rising the but inequality is rising and Rising the middle class are losing their assets”
“my concern is we have a massive problem of inequality”
“when economies are becoming rapidly more when economies are becoming rapidly more unequal they don't really want goods and unequal they don't really want goods ”
“for 100 years we taxed very rich people at extremely high rates and that prevented them from accumulating the rest of the assets”
“I think that almost everybody agrees that high levels of inequality are a bad thing, but I think people have believed or been kind of fooled into believing for ”
“not dealing with the fundamental problem not dealing with the fundamental problem not dealing with the fundamental problem of inequality”
“If you want meritocracy, you should tax the rich rather than working people. So that's my answer. How do you get meritocracy? You tax the rich.”
“So in the wealth equal economy, basically everyone's going to own like a big chunk of the house they live in. Everyone will pretty much own the house they live ”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “I'm not calling for redistribution. The redistribution is happening. I'm trying to stop the redistribution.”
“You can reverse that if you tax the rich.”
“The only way to protect the middle class and the poor from the rich is taxation. Just like the only way to protect you from foreign armies is an army. We don't ”
“If you want to stop the decrease in living standards, we need to stop the increase in wealth inequality.”
“I think the problem is inequality. And, I'm honestly, I'm really worried. I'm really, really worried that, the left's not going to get its act together. It's no”
“is a small incredibly Rich Elite ruling is a small incredibly Rich Elite ruling is a small incredibly Rich Elite ruling over a vast majority of incredibly impov”
“inequality, specifically inequality of wealth is growing and growing, that is causing falls in living standards for ordinary families”
“If you don't tax the rich, inequality will grow more and more and your grandkids will be poor.”
“You have to tax the rich. You have to tax people like Rishi Sunak. If you don't tax them, you kids will be poor. That's why I do what I do every week. Tell your”
“If they don't reduce wealth inequality, then they will not be able to stop the fall in living standards.”
“it's because of growing in equality”
“So assets transfer back from the government... assets transfer back from the rich to the middle class so that inequality decreases.”
“increased inequality is pushing wages down but a devaluation of the currency down but a devaluation of the currency down but a devaluation of the currency is pu”
“The reason I do this, the reason I campaign to stop inequality from increasing, is because I do not want the ordinary people of this country, of other countries”
“if we don't deal with growing inequality if we don't deal with growing inequality if we don't deal with growing inequality that is what I see what are the bigge”
“If we get wealth into the hands of ordinary people, you can live a very comfortable life just like the rich do now. If we push wealth in the other direction, li”
“this economic situation does not get better it can get better if we deal with the inequality if we deal with deal with the inequality if we deal with the tax sy”
“people like you understand inequality is growing and inequality is growing very quickly and when inequality grows quickly living standards for the rich increase”
“And the only way to deal with inequality is to tax the rich.”
“So as an economy becomes more wealth unequal, what you then have is a greater share of the assets and a greater share of the purchasing power being held by the ”
“inequality is just destroying the inequality is just destroying the inequality is just destroying the economy”
“it's we're losing the middle the middle it's we're losing the middle the middle it's we're losing the middle the middle class losing their homes government's cl”
“economies would not reach the people who economies would not reach the people who economies would not reach the people who needed it it would settle in the pock”
“My worry is that when you have very high levels of inequality, what it means is you can't get basic essential needs like housing and health care and education.”
“If you want to make things better, you have to bring that wealth inequality down. If you want to stop things getting worse, you at least have to stop it from in”
“the consequence is the impoverishment um the consequence is the impoverishment um the consequence is the impoverishment of of of the masses of the people”
“I think that's very, very relevant in this society we live in of increasing inequality. You know, people who know the work I do outside of this book will know t”
“if we get together and force politicians to tax the rich more aggressively to force wealth to flow to ordinary people rather than away from ordinary people, we ”
“inequality doesn't just have to go up inequality doesn't just have to go up forever”
“The reality of the situation is that ordinary families are getting poorer. They losing their wealth. So I want to explain explicitly how that is happening.”
“these guys the very very very rich are these guys the very very very rich are these guys the very very very rich are taking everything if you don't stop them”
“There's those bits in the book where you're starting to ask the questions about inequality and you're asking people around you about it.”
“in my opinion is being driven by inequality”
“The most frustrating thing about this is it's fixable because we can reverse those inequality increases by taxing the rich.”
“Payments made from poor people to rich people that make wealth inequality get higher.”
“action on wealth inequality because wealth inequality in the absence of action will increase and is increasing very quickly”
“The only way to stop that is to tax rich people more aggressively so that ordinary people can have a fairer share of what we're producing in our societies.”
“If we decrease the inequality, we can improve the living standards. If we don't decrease the inequality, living standards will continue to decrease and politics”
“there is a group of people that is taking all of your [ __ ] how do we stop them from doing that and tax is the most obvious way to do it”
“largest and fastest ever increasing largest and fastest ever increasing largest and fastest ever increasing inequality in the history of the country”
“because these guys are getting richer because these guys are getting richer because these guys are getting richer and richer and richer by taking your assets”
“if you don't fix inequality, the economy will collapse and living standards will collapse”
“wealth inequality will get higher and higher we will lose our middle class and we will fall into poverty”
“what are you doing about wealth inequality? what are you doing about the massive increase in wealth inequality in the last 3 years?”
“stock prices which makes the rich richer stock prices which makes the rich richer stock prices which makes the rich richer and makes it harder for middle class ”
“the reason that we don't have that kind of poverty here in Western Europe and in the States is because we have protected our wealth distribution and we've preve”
“I think the most important thing to understand here is that the institutions which we have designated to protect our economy and to protect working families bec”
“they will find that it's sitting in the bank account of the richest people in the country driving up the prices of the things you need of the houses you need”
“If we were to find those people who have that money, we will see that they have gotten enormously richer, if we were to tax it back the government debt would de”
“this is not about taxing people with one million pounds okay this is about taxing people with 100 million pounds”
“once you understand this then what you see is inequality is absolute cancer at the philosophical root of capitalism because if you have a broader equal society ”
“it's overwhelmingly the rich that it's overwhelmingly the rich that it's overwhelmingly the rich that increases inequality that increases increases inequality t”
“if you take two groups of people a large middle class and and a small rich elite and you constantly pump wealth from the middle class to the super rich elite an”
“I started this because I want to reduce inequality and I know that's not easy but I think we have a chance to be a part of that”
“if you cannot tax the rich and the rich have all the assets then you end up in a situation where whenever there's a crisis the rich get a ton of money and you c”
“wealth inequality will get higher and higher we will lose our middle class and we will fall into poverty we need to tax hoarded accumulated wealth”
“it's not inequality doesn't just mean you don't get a house it also means the government cannot afford good government cannot afford good”
“money to buy assets from the middle class that will increase inequality more class that will increase inequality more class that will increase inequality more a”
“The only way to protect working people in this country including asset owners is to keep wealth flowing around so listen I would encourage you even if you do ha”
“it has to come from a burning desire and unflinching demand do something about the wealth distribution or we will never vote for you or we will never accept it”
“in the end you need to demand a reduction of inequality and you need to say I'm not going to vote for anyone that doesn't give us a reduction in wealth inequali”
“they don't do anything about orphan equality things continue to get worse equality things continue to get worse equality things continue to get worse”
“what we would see is the biggest and fastest increase in inequality in the history of the country”
“if you create no assistance for good people who know what they're doing to challenge challenge challenge the rich privileged Elite who control the rich privileg”
“we have a structural worsening crisis of inequality that will lead to predictable understandable bad outcomes”
“increasing inequality... so if you understand this £700 billion then you can understand a lot of what's happening... it's also an opportunity to attack the gove”
“my analysis says it's overwhelmingly the rich that increases inequality that increases asset prices and price in the shops and it decreases living standards for”
“this government has resided over the largest and fastest ever increase in inequality in the history of the country”
“if you do nothing about growing inequality if you don't do anything about growing inequality poverty will get worse and worse and worse”
“if we do something about this wealth inequality if we manage to reverse that motion of increasing wealth inequality and start driving wealth in the other direct”
“this government has presided over the largest and fastest ever increased inequality in the history of the country”
“really we've got a choice either start wealth flowing back from the rich to ordinary families which would involve get rid of tax loopholes, greater taxation of ”
“this is about an understanding of the importance of wealth inequality and a willingness to make that change”
“if you do not fix inequality do not fix the economy”
“I bet that the global economy specifically the US and UK economies would recover extremely slowly slowly slowly that there would be prolonged economic weakness ”
“the significance of inequality on the economy was not understood so when when inequality changes massively you can make money in the markets”
“if we took that back there's no need for austerity if we took that back we could give every single adult in the country £12,000 imagine that £12,000 in your ban”
“if everybody turns around and says listen these guys are just a bunch of crooks they're not doing anything unless they fix wealth inequality with [ __ ]”
“housing could be so much more affordable wages could be so much higher and we could have so many more options in how we live our lives”
“I care so much about wealth inequality and also what wealth inequality does to the economy from the perspective of ordinary families and ordinary people's lives”
“in a broadly equal economy what that would mean is most people would have some decent ownership of assets so most people would for example own their own home”
“if you absolutely demand it that inequality gets better and wealth flows to ordinary families then you will get it”
“campaigning for wealth inequality bring people in and help grow this voice and that that that hopefully is how we achieve change”
“if we don't do something about that inequality will grow massively we will lose our middle class who will lose their assets”
“get as many people as possible to understand how important it is that we fix wealth inequality”
“highlights what is actually happening which is that there is a billionaire class class class that is stripping away our government that is stripping away our go”
“if you do not do something about massively rapidly increasing wealth inequality you are going to decimate living standards of ordinary people and Ordinary Peopl”
“the biggest and fastest ever increase in millionaire and billionaire wealth in millionaire and billionaire wealth in the country”
“all it does is make wealth inequality worse right because it means that ordinary families have less assets and richer families get more assets”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “they appear to be ideological about is they appear to be ideological about is they appear to be ideological about is increasing inequality”
“if we want to make things better all we have to do is be serious about measuring the distribution and inequality of wealth um be serious about how can we reduce”
“you cannot expect to see the fastest ever increase in inequality in the history of the country and not see living standards for ordinary people fall”
“if you allow the rich to get richer if you allow inequality to increase a massive rate that hurts you your family your kids ability to buy houses your ability t”
“inequality increases and Ordinary People inequality increases and Ordinary People inequality increases and Ordinary People find it harder to live”
“the rich get richer ordinary people get poorer inequality increases and ordinary people find it harder to live because you as an ordinary person are competing w”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “the end result will be a massive increase in inequality”
“if you don't hit these super rich if you don't hit these super rich if you don't hit these super rich then they will use their enormous then they will use their”
“if that is allowed to continue then it is inevitable that we will see broad increase and we will eventually reach a place of mass poverty in this country”
“I only wanted to work with wealthy individuals who kind of get this stuff who are already concerned about inequality”
“the true villains here who are destroying our lives and our economy which is the super rich”
“the fastest ever increase in millionaire and billionaire wealth in the country ever in the history of this country it's obvious where we need to get the money f”
“and cause crises of inequality and of living standards and of inflation for ordinary people”
“they're doing is massively increasing inequality right so then you see this inequality right so then you see this inequality right so then you see this situatio”
“what you actually want to do the perfect policy actually want to do the perfect policy actually want to do the perfect policy is actually really the exact oppos”
“if you want to fix that problem you need to start taking serious amounts of money from the rich and giving it to ordinary people”
“designed to keep concentrating wealth designed to keep concentrating wealth and minimizing tax”
“the government gave a ton of money to rich people that is destroying the lives of poor and ordinary people You need to take the money back from the rich people ”
“why covert has increased in quality so why covert has increased in quality so why covert has increased in quality so badly right”
“leveling up would be great but if you look at what they're actually doing it's not happening”
“inequality is basically a cancer killing our economy what's happening is is basically terrible right huge amount of money was given and now more money will be g”
“they're doing nothing to fix the inequality which is the fundamental inequality which is the fundamental inequality which is the fundamental problem”
“the consequence of economic collapse and the consequence of economic crisis is repeatedly a massive increase in is repeatedly a massive increase in is repeatedl”
“our society is still scarred by too much unfairness and inequality”
“a big jump in inflation, a crisis of inequality and cost of living crisis for ordinary people”
“i genuinely think if people understand that this is being caused by the massive increase of increase of increase of the wealth of the rich and that is fixable f”
“a victory will be if wealth inequality starts decreasing if housing starts becoming more affordable and more obtainable for ordinary families that will be a vic”
“there are growing concerns around the globe over the growing gap between wealthy and poor not just in the united states of course but literally around the globe”
“I think when you have a crisis of inequality where richard when you have a crisis where rich people are getting richer the obviously correct thing to do is to t”
“if we don't do anything about it they will get richer and richer and richer and richer and ordinary people will get poorer and poorer and poorer and poorer”
“and the only way to make that happen is to actually force rich people to pay their taxes”
“if we don't fix wealth inequality life is going to get significantly worse for people in this country generation after generation after generation”
“what we're going to do in this video is a really clear explanation of what's going to happen in the post-covid economy if we don't do anything about the massive”
“push for action on wealth distribution wealth inequality taxation of the rich”
“if you don't deal with inequality it's going to be an economic disaster for ordinary people and it is you know unaffordable housing no good jobs you know bad qu”
“and it's about letting people know look if we don't do something about inequality then we're going to get really bad economic and human outcomes for like you an”
“this is a case of the poor and ordinary hurting and the rich have never ever ever made more money”
“I went from being very poor to being very rich by betting that inequality would grow and that would keep the economy weak reason why if the wealth is being held”
“instead of punishing the poor you transfer wealth from the rich and the super rich who can afford to pay it towards the poor and ordinary people who are often s”
“push for better wealth distribution and for a tax system that taxes billionaires on a higher rate than you pay your tax”
“if we fix wealth inequality we can reverse this”
“understand that this is being caused by our government using the kovitz crisis to allow millionaires and billionaires to accumulate literally hundreds of billio”
“the fact is if we don't fix things, it's not really about the rich versus the poor it's about like the 1% versus the rest of us”
“I know that if we don't deal with inequality which again is exploding now we'll have a very weak economy for a long long time”
“if we don't reduce it things are not going to get better that means things are going to make worse for ordinary people”
“massive increasing inequality massive massive increase in the wealth of the richest massive increase in house prices and stock prices so stock prices so qe is a”
“the only way to make things better is to deal with this problem of wealth inequality”
“the answer the problem is inequality and it's it's probably not going to get better because at the time people talk about inequality now but back in 2011 nobody”
“we've got a serious problem here that will not get better unless we do something and a lot of the people in power are not incentivized to do it so if we want ch”
“the key thing we need to fix is wealth inequality by teaching each other that if we don't fix wealth inequality things are not going to get better but we'll get”
“if we want to stop that as a group we have to do something about inequality and that's why i said we have to tax the super rich it's the only way to do it”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “we have seen the biggest ever single year increase in billionaire wealth 22% increase in billionaire wealth the top 250 richest families in the country saw thei”
“if we actually start reducing wealth inequality rather than letting it continue to grow we can put that cycle into reverse we can make the money go to ordinary ”
“rather than rising national insurance to all three people we could tax these guys and pay people to get vaccinated helping reduce inequality”
“if you don't do something about inequality the economy won't get better”
“if we don't do anything about wealth inequality but the newspapers which are very often owned by billionaires and the politicians who often are billionaires the”
“billionaire wealth up 22 the average billionaire wealth increased by 600 million pounds during Kobe ordinary people 2.5 percent extra tax on your national insur”
“we realize that wealth is much much more unequally distributed than income”
“if we don't find a way to tax the billionaires it's going to be a very difficult it's going to be a very difficult economy for the rest of us”
“we wouldn't fix inequality so i've been very interested in this for a long time”
“if ordinary people allow the super rich to tax them while they themselves often end up paying rates of tax: 10%, 5%, even less then it's going to be a system wh”
“always seems to be the rich people that always seems to be the rich people that get all these schemes and we poor people get all these schemes and we poor peopl”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “this is other than making everybody poor except the billionaires”
“if we don't fix wealth inequality it means unaffordable housing, bad jobs and no financial security for your kids and your grandkids”
“we need to fix wealth inequality and then all the do you want a big welfare state?”
“my concern is what is it going to do for inequality and what is it going to do for the ability of ordinary people from ordinary families to buy houses to raise ”
“people love this idea that we can fight back against the system you know i'm always talking about my youtube you know we've got a system that is set up where a ”
“this problem is caused by inequality so the only way to fix it is by fixing inequality not by taxing ordinary working people but by taxing the super rich”
“if we don't do anything about inequality I think we will move to a future like that that the housing will be even less affordable”
“if we don't find a way to tax the riches it's going to be disaster for the rest of us”
“i don't want to live in a world where you have to choose you know where the only way to get the freedom to do meaningful work is to like make a crazy amount of ”
“it's just crazy what a distorted understanding of the world and of money a lot of these very rich people have”
“in my opinion if we don't fix inequality that will mean all of the money goes to the rich who use it to buy house prices”
“if you're poor but everyone around you is poor i'm not saying that's easy but it's a it's harder in the sense when you're poor and there's so many people around”
“the only way we're going to fix that we're going to fix that is to deal with the actual underlying fundamental problem of the culvert crisis which is that is ma”
“unless we do something about this inequality, unless we make sure the super rich at least pay the same rate of tax that the rest of us pay that is our future”
“one of the most obvious problems is that we keep seeing house prices go up and up stock prices go up and up and that causes big increases inequality”
“deeper than that i think there's a deeper than that i think there's a deeper than that i think there's a problem with inequality here because as you've seen the”
“people like my dad and my friends dads people like my dad and my friends dads people like my dad and my friends dads are working so hard and getting so are work”
“we need to start making the richest people actually contribute to fixing and paying towards these crises rather than just profiting from them”
“now he's an economist who specializes in examining inequality examining inequality examining inequality and he thinks that's what's been exposed”
“I can see inequality blowing up listen I come from a poor background I'm rich now I totally see what is happening in the world and I understand how it affects p”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “I don't think we're gonna transform capitalism and radically redistribute wealth just by everybody becoming a stock market trader”
“the richest people in the country like jeff bezos the value of their companies are doubling and this is on the back of 10 years of stock markets exploding in th”
“because economists don't understand the importance of inequality”
“so really if you're talking about how do we deal with this crisis who's going to pay it back it's going to be the poorer kids because the richer guys those guys”
“I developed these theories that inequality is much more important than most economists to realize, which means that because we're not addressing inequality the ”
“there's going to be a lot of inequality resulting from coronavirus and the best way to fix it will be a wealth tax”
“Ultimately we need to find a way to make the richest in our society contribute to fixing this crisis rather than simply profiting from it. Otherwise financial s”