Commentary: I got rich by betting that inequality would destroy the U.S. and U.K. I’m sorry - Gary Stevenson
Commentary: I got rich by betting that inequality would destroy the U.S. and U.K. I’m sorry - Gary Stevenson
Gary Stevenson grew up in poverty and became Citibank's most profitable trader. Here's what he thinks of the U.K.'s mini-budget.
That is what happens when you slash taxation on the richest and allow inequality to explode. Your economies die, and your children don’t eat, and they wear thick jumpers, as I did, in the winter, and they shiver, with their families, in cold homes.
Meanwhile, someone like me will be sitting in a skyscraper, just a 15-minute walk away, betting on it, and that person will become a millionaire.
Then they’ll retire and they’ll buy a luxury apartment, overlooking a marina, and they’ll sit on a huge sofa and eat porridge, and they’ll watch the budget, and they’ll cry.
And in the houses down the road, the mom doesn’t eat, and she hopes the children don’t notice. But they do.
Atone by paying your fair share of taxes, and donate a fuckton to causes that uplift the marginalized. Guilt assuaged,problem solved.
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"He joined the Patriotic Millionaires and Millionaires for Humanity to campaign for wealth tax..." – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Stevenson_(economist)
He's not sorry. He's rich and wants to appear contrite.
He seems pretty earnest about it to me.
He is, check his Wikipedia page.
He's getting the apologies inb4 all the guillotines are built.
That is what happens when you slash taxation on the richest and allow inequality to explode. Your economies die, and your children don’t eat, and they wear thick jumpers, as I did, in the winter, and they shiver, with their families, in cold homes.
And that is why the propaganda starts early and you're a traitor to question the logic.
There's also war abroad they trumpet up every so often to deflect from any responsibility. It's always "get-out-free-of-consequences" card and people feel smug for arbitrary reasons or downright lies to have their tax sent to kill innocent people in thousands while the military complex rakes in billions. So they have been doing it time and again with great success.
"Thank you for your service"
Totally unreadable past the first few paragraphs. Smarmy humblebrag bullshit.