Britain’s Economy Will Only Get Worse | Aaron Bastani meets Gary Stevenson
#economics #inequality #wealthinequality
#ittakesmoneytomakemoney #trajectory
#assetmanagement #theeconomy
#values
To further accompany problem identification (than already done in the interview), here's a video of Gary Stevenson's about #solutions and #opportunity (to win the ideological theoretical debate) with the #povertymajority, big #demand for alternative, in #awareness of the #statusquo not working, and about helping people understand what's happening and build on that understanding ( #educateyourselfsoyoumayeducateothers ), reform, democratic pressure, ... not hopium to placate you back to defeated slumber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFHGiq063rA
... and while I'm at it, here's the explosive first interview from a year or so ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViY-zI3b5JQ
There are so many many portions I could have quoted from that interview. Hard to pick. Here's just a couple.
"a call to arms."
"... [the book is] a massive opportunity for me to spread awareness of these problems"
"...this beautiful and horrible irony that if you can convince poor and ordinary people to be very very selfish in a material sense, you will completely materially impoverish them."
"So this is this amazing irony that if you cam make poor people obsessed with getting rich, they'll become poor."
"It's kind of a moral test for our society: are you willing to put your selfishness aside enough to protect your selfish interests?"
"The rich have got so much money now, they have to do something with it, they can't just sit on it."
interviewer: "I think I saw a statistic ~ this is from 2019, it's probably worse now ~ one in six baby boomers is a millionaire. Right? That is... ~ if you want to talk about the people who do the door knocking for the conservative party, that y'know... they will vote in every single bloody election for the Tories and think the sun shines out of Jeremy Hunt's backside, even when they're as terrible as they are right now. You look at the polls, and who are these 25% of people? It's those people, and the people sort of immediately around them."
