The economy, wealth inequality and survival

HONEST discussion would only benefit the people the Elites look down on.

So...don't look for it.

This is why the Framers tried to prevent a Government-centric system, whereas all wealth, all information, all consent, must go through the central government. Our system was intended not only to be decentralized, but the institutions OUTSIDE government - social groups, churches, community organizations, were to lead with opinions and agendas. Government was to RESPOND to them, not mobilize Manufactured Consent.

Obviously our system is no longer working that way. Started with Direct-Election-of-Senators, which stripped out State sovereignty, and continued with the Regulatory State intruding on private affairs (yes, business and commerce are private affairs). Followed by a gaming of elections - as the then-current officeholders were excited to wallow in all this newfound power, and thus came Lifetime Sinecure (see Graham, Goober).

ALL of these need be addressed - if the republic is to survive - with Constitutional Amendments. But since the Political Class has gummed up THAT, all that's left is a violent collapse.

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Gee, didn't they try that awhile back? Like, the 1950s. Labour on a roll...they sold Socialism as, continuing the wartime program of rationing and free medical care for all, through the rebuilding and recovery. Meaning, of course, permanently.

In 1948, Britain, although deeply damaged from the war, had a strong industrial base. They exported coal. They had shipyards. Their motor industry was arguably the best in Europe - especially since Germany was in ruins and under Occupation.

It was so outstanding, in fact, that Nissan, trying to re-orient their business to manufacture of private autos, something they had never done...they approached Austin, asking to license and build engines to Austin design.

And Austin directors assented - magnanimously. They spoke with pity of the poor little Japanese businessmen, humbly groveling that they be allowed blueprints and rights to manufacture.

The Austin engine lasted longer with Nissan than did Austin...Nissan updated it into the 1980s; Austin got folded into the British Motor Company merger, and then merged with Leyland, makers of trucks and buses. The resulting mish-mash was the British Labourites' Penn Central moment - the company bankrupted; the Labour government took it over, and for 14 years they produced increasingly obsoleted, low-quality product, with costs out of control. Any effort to bring costs down or rationalize manufacture was met with union threats - which of course the Labour Party asceded to.

Meantime, John, Paul, George and Ringo all came over to the Colonies - and sang about The Tax Man. Remember that?

It took Margaret Thatcher to un-screw-up the Labour mess, and she was only partly successful. AND as a result, MOST British industry wound up owned by foreign interests. There was little option - it was, sell it to foreign businesses that weren't bankrupted, or just close down.

They have to revisit that wonderful time, I guess.

Gary's Economics
This one is pretty long (48 mins) but there is nothing to see so if interested you can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

It's time to say goodbye

Jul 26, 2026
Alright everyone. Last video. I did this one totally unscripted so I forgot a few important things and then I wrote a really long description to fill that all in and YT told me it was too long so here's the important points.
Read the rest under the vid on youtube.

It's time to say goodbye

There's a shorter version on X.

Barry's Economics

Jul 26, 2026 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality
Why Doesn't It Seem Possible to Tax The Rich Even a Little Bit More?
Well...There's a trick that's been used against the public for over seventy years. It's completely legal, it's very well funded, and it's working on you right now.
It doesn't involve lying. That's the clever part. You never have to say anything false.
I want to show you how this trick works, and you'll spot it everywhere. In every news debate, every panel show, every politician saying "we need to be careful here."
And I want to show you the one time in British history we actually beat it. Which matters, because the same trick is being run again, right now, on the biggest question in the country,
I’m Barry Ferns, a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.

The Trick The Rich Play To Never Get Taxed

Private Tour of Elon Musk's Most Underrated Company (The Boring Company)​

Master Plan: What Elon Musk is Actually Building

Why Redistribution Actually Works (and why you fear it)

Aug 23, 2026 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality
Why do we work?
The obvious answer is:
Because we have to.
But what if that's only part of the story? This week's video looks at the biggest lie you've been told about your own motivation, scarcity, UBI experiments and the rather uncomfortable possibility that if we looked at the studies and acted on them we come.... become more powerful than we could possibly imagine.
It might give us the freedom to actually do something.
I’m Barry Ferns, a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.

Why Redistribution Actually Works (and why you fear it)

Nothing earth shattering, just an interesting article I came across.

Mark Cuban wants to solve wealth inequality by making employers choose between paying higher taxes or giving every member of staff company stock​

For a man reportedly worth more than $10 billion, entrepreneur Mark Cuban spends a lot of time talking about wealth inequality—and how to distribute it more evenly.

The ‘Shark Tank’ star has long shared suggestions—and has enacted his plans—to better balance income throughout the U.S. economy. One of Cuban’s ideas was to give employees company stock: he told a recent episode of the ‘What It Takes’ podcast that he awarded 330 employees at his media company, Broadcast.com, stock ahead of Yahoo’s $5.7 billion acquisition of the company in 1999. Three hundred of those employees became millionaires as a result, he said.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/per...ff-company-stock/ar-AA2aOzQA?ocid=socialshare

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Why Redistribution Actually Works (and why you fear it)

Aug 23, 2026 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality
Why do we work?
The obvious answer is:
Because we have to.
But what if that's only part of the story? This week's video looks at the biggest lie you've been told about your own motivation, scarcity, UBI experiments and the rather uncomfortable possibility that if we looked at the studies and acted on them we come.... become more powerful than we could possibly imagine.
It might give us the freedom to actually do something.
I’m Barry Ferns, a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.

Why Redistribution Actually Works (and why you fear it)

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Yeah.

Taking money from those who produce, and giving it to those who produce nothing...THAT's the way to motivate people.

We don't need none a that Patriarchy with the Bible...He who does not work, neither shall he eat....that's so...so RAY-cyst...

Barry's Economics

Really nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

The Game Is Rigged. That’s the Best News You’ll Hear All Year

Oct 11, 2026 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality
People love telling us that success is down to mindset, hard work and refusing to give up.
But what happens when that advice ignores the conditions people are actually trying to succeed in?
In this video, I look at the psychology of learned helplessness, the research into how we understand control over our lives, and the ways social systems can shape what we believe is possible for ourselves.
This isn't an argument for giving up. It's an argument for understanding the game you're playing, recognising the barriers in front of you, and finding a more useful way to think about what comes next.

42:52

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Research & further reading

- Abramson, L. Y., Seligman, M. E. P. & Teasdale, J. D. (1978). “Learned Helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation.” Journal of Abnormal Psychology.https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1979-0...

- Rotter, J. B. (1966). “Generalized Expectancies for Internal Versus External Control of Reinforcement.” Psychological Monographs: General and Applied. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0092976

- Hoxby, C. M. & Avery, C. (2013). “The Missing ‘One-Offs’: The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/th...

- Gottfredson, L. S. (1981). “Circumscription and Compromise: A Developmental Theory of Occupational Aspirations.”https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredso...

- Godfrey, E. B., Santos, C. E. & Burson, E. (2019). “For Better or Worse? System-Justifying Beliefs in Sixth-Grade Predict Trajectories of Self-Esteem and Behavior Across Early Adolescence.” Child Development.https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12854

- Diemer, M. A. & Blustein, D. L. (2006). “Critical Consciousness and Career Development Among Urban Youth.” Journal of Vocational Behavior.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2005.07...

Barry's Economics

Oct 18, 2026 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality
“That's just basic economics.”
It's a phrase that gets used quite a lot to shut down arguments about wages, rent, taxation and inequality. But what happens when the research contradicts the textbook?

Why “Economically Naive” Is the Most Naive Thing You Can Say

Barry's Economics

Oct 25, 2026 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality
One dying child makes us cry but a million makes us scroll.
That isn’t because we’re cruel. It’s because our brains were never built for the numbers.
This video stitches together two bits of research that explain the block. Paul Slovic’s work and Robin Dunbar’s work on the size of the human social brain.
We’re hitting a wall that was there before we were born. And the people who understand that wall best are the ones using it against us.
I’m in this too. I’ve walked past the same homeless bloke a hundred times and felt nothing, then found myself tearing up at one photograph. This video is me trying to work out why.

Why We Are Indifferent To Mass Suffering

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Billionaires Fighting California’s Wealth Tax Have Put $333 Million Into Political Ad Machine Ahead of Elections

California's billionaires are relying on a well-funded PAC to defeat Proposition 40, a proposed wealth tax on the state's ultrarich.

www.yahoo.com

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The devil's in the details.

The media moron-grrlz love to set this up as greedy Uncle Scrooge versus the Robin-Hood gubbermint. But...a few facts.

MOST rich people have relatively low income. They don't live on their income - I mean, the established rich, versus the Michael-Jackson rich. Warren Buffet has a modest suburban home in Omaha.

(Yeah, and several vacation lodges, too...I get it; but aside from taxes, those are not a major cost)

They're rich. Meaning they HAVE. Not income; but what they OWN.

The "income" the moron Neo-Marxists babble about, is unrealized capital-gains; appreciation on what they do own.

Do we want to set up a system with a Wealth Tax? We have it already; it's called "inflation" or "currency debasement" - and it's destroying the economy.

Do we want to make this, law and policy by, not just destroying the value of dollars, but openly taxing what people have SAVED...AFTER income taxes?

NOBODY will own ANYTHING.

Just like Klaus and the Davos Deviants proclaimed.

How to Get Filthy Rich | Britain's growing wealth divide | 4K

Nov 1, 2026 #WealthInequality #TaxTheRich #UKEconomy
How To Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson - A former trader turned YouTube activist argues that taxing the super-rich is the only way to fix the UK's growing wealth gap.

Synopsis:Gary Stevenson, former trader, YouTube creator and best-selling author, made millions in the financial sector before becoming one of the UK's most vocal critics of wealth inequality. In this documentary, Stevenson travels across Britain to confront the gap between those who struggle and those who accumulate billions. He meets public sector workers, economists, financiers, and multi-millionaires to build his case: that the concentration of wealth is the root cause of the country's social and economic decline. His proposed fix is a wealth tax on the super-rich. The film follows Stevenson as he goes head to head with those who reject his ideas and finds allies among those who share his diagnosis of a broken system.

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He also has message for anyone tempted to vote for Reform (spoiler: stopping immigration won't fix the problem)

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Well then he's pretty f'ing stupid.

The answer to low and middle class people not making as much money isn't to bring in even more competition for their jobs, but to have less competition for their jobs.

More immigrants create downward pressure on wages, and wages are how the lower classes get the bulk of their money.

It's simple supply vs demand.

Fewer workers command higher wages.

Higher wages give people a chance to have a surplus that can then be invested in order to start building wealth.

If their wages are kept low due to large influx of immigrants, they won't ever have a surplus to begin building wealth.

The only reason the rich get richer, is because they don't spend every dime they get.



Same applies here. All the idiots who complain about stuff being unaffordable are typically the same idiots wanting to allow millions of people into the country to compete for their jobs.

Under idiot Biden, they let in ten million or more people into our nation, that in a good year might create a couple million jobs.
....and we only built 1.6 million new places for people to live.
.....and then those same idiots scratch their heads and wonder why food and rents are way up while wages are stagnant.
.....and then the idiots only solution is to take even more from the people who already pay 80+% of all the taxes we already have.


The whole f'ing problem is the inflationary monetary system we got saddled with by the previous generations of idiots who couldn't f'ing follow the rules and insisted on being able to permanently spend beyond their means.

If people did wtf they are supposed to do (live within their own f'ing means) we wouldn't have $40T in public debt and gold could still be $20 a f'ing ounce.

Instead, we get f'ed because they couldn't be happy only spending what they'd earned.
....and now just to not fall behind, you gotta play all these BS financial games.

Joe King said:

Well then he's pretty f'ing stupid.

The answer to low and middle class people not making as much money isn't to bring in even more competition for their jobs, but to have less competition for their jobs.

More immigrants create downward pressure on wages, and wages are how the lower classes get the bulk of their money.

It's simple supply vs demand.

Fewer workers command higher wages.

Higher wages give people a chance to have a surplus that can then be invested in order to start building wealth.

If their wages are kept low due to large influx of immigrants, they won't ever have a surplus to begin building wealth.

The only reason the rich get richer, is because they don't spend every dime they get.



Same applies here. All the idiots who complain about stuff being unaffordable are typically the same idiots wanting to allow millions of people into the country to compete for their jobs.

Under idiot Biden, they let in ten million or more people into our nation, that in a good year might create a couple million jobs.
....and we only built 1.6 million new places for people to live.
.....and then those same idiots scratch their heads and wonder why food and rents are way up while wages are stagnant.
.....and then the idiots only solution is to take even more from the people who already pay 80+% of all the taxes we already have.


The whole f'ing problem is the inflationary monetary system we got saddled with by the previous generations of idiots who couldn't f'ing follow the rules and insisted on being able to permanently spend beyond their means.

If people did wtf they are supposed to do (live within their own f'ing means) we wouldn't have $40T in public debt and gold could still be $20 a f'ing ounce.

Instead, we get f'ed because they couldn't be happy only spending what they'd earned.
....and now just to not fall behind, you gotta play all these BS financial games.

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The criminals and terrorists that the pedophile let into the country aren't interested in jobs. They are here for their free money, free housing, free food, and anything else they can get from the democrats for free. They aren't here to work. They are here to take over.

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Small increases in taxes on the rich that were instituted during times of Democratic control of Congress and the White House have been consistently swamped by larger tax cuts passed during times of Republican control. This was most recently reflected in the massive budget reconciliation bill pushed through Congress exclusively by Republicans and signed by President Trump.

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What a load of malarkey.

Those tax cuts gave everyone who pays taxes, a cut.
....and overall, giving gov less money is a good thing.

Giving the gov more money certainly hasn't caused the gov to become more economically prudent, has it?

Time to go the other way and force it to.

Casey Jones said:

Taking money from those who produce, and giving it to those who produce nothing...THAT's the way to motivate people.

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Especially if all they do is spend every dime they given by buying stuff from the same rich people it was taken from in the first place.

CiscoKid said:

The criminals and terrorists that the pedophile let into the country aren't interested in jobs. They are here for their free money, free housing, free food, and anything else they can get from the democrats for free. They aren't here to work. They are here to take over.

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Some certainly do that, but not all.

There are lots of immigrants who do in fact work.
.....and they increase completion for jobs.

Especially so on the lower rungs of society.

Joe King said:

Well then he's pretty f'ing stupid.

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We're at Peak Mind Control. The kook Left thinks they're SO close to their Utopia, of Crimethink and One-Party Rule...now they're pushing their black-is-white Narratives constantly.

This "immigrant" (invader) "question" (plan to demolish the West) is illustrative. Of COURSE these tens of millions of "New Germans" and "New English" aren't the problem. Diversity is our STRENGTH!

The problem is, we don't TAX enough, we emit too much CAR-bunn, and we don't punish Hate Speech enough!