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Ex-trader, economist and social media sensation Gary Stevenson (‪@garyseconomics‬) says the growing wealth gap is the root of many of the UK’s problems. And he knows what to do about it: tax the filthy rich.

00:00 Britain's wealth gap
02:14 Bassim Haidar
07:39 The richest in the UK
08:20 How I became a millionaire
10:24 Cost of living crisis
17:27 Education and university
22:24 The social media age
29:04 My tax solution
37:32 Being born rich
45:48 The housing problem
52:34 Dan Neidle
59:07 Will a wealth tax work?
1:01:41 The future of Britain
1:07:14 Outro

First shown: 8 Jul 2026

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20 Comments

@SOI-wl2lo 2 months ago

Not suitable for viewers under 16?! Those are exactly the people who should watch this!

@NathanL2B2026 2 months ago

Hi Gary,

It’s Nathan here that you came to interview in Stockport for the documentary.

Just to say what a pleasure it was to meet you, and your team.

I’ve learned a lot following your YouTube channel over the years. I am certainly still no expert… but I now know enough to engage in these conversations with all sorts of people.

Hopefully we can all keep these conversations going, and all do our bit to further the campaign.

You’re not on your own Gary, but you certainly are someone a lot of us look up to, and I think you should be proud of that!

@BeegPlatypus 2 months ago

It's crazy that suggesting a 2% tax on over £10 million is controversial. It's such a ridiculously small percentage.

@Mynamejedd 2 months ago

The old gentleman from Devon rightly pointed out that the tax on wealth will collapse the values of assets. Exactly the point! So then the ordinary people will finally be able to afford to buy land and houses!

@BeeVee-b1d 2 months ago

12k a seminar… “Don’t tell your family” says all you need to know about Samuel Leeds.

@nickhowarthracing 2 months ago

The thought of someone with £11 million getting upset over a £20,000 tax bill is genuinely baffling. That's around 0.18% of their wealth - most people lose more than that to inflation in a month. Such a simple way to dramatically improve things for everyone.

@Charadan 2 months ago

I detest this notion that employing people equates to charity.

It’s a partnership where both benefit, and where the enterpreneur/risk taker rightfully benefits when things work out. It just has skewed too much to the employer’s benefit. This should be obvious to everyone, and this is coming from someone well off btw.

Not everyone can be an enterpreneur, per definition.

@Mynamejedd 2 months ago

A gentleman whose family owned an estate for a 1000 years says it’s not like rich owning assets is locking away the possibility for others owning assets 😂

@MusicProductionJS 2 months ago

The argument used to be; I’m a billionaire I create jobs and provide jobs, without me no one would have jobs. But this argument is getting more paper thin every year and doesn’t hold weight when people WITH jobs increasingly cannot afford mortgages, rents, bills and those that can have less and less disposable income. Having a job is now not correlated to living a good quality life. For most having a job these days means surviving.

@AmassMoreMoney 2 months ago

What I learnt from this - If your wealthy (and only if your wealthy) then a wealth tax is a terrible idea.

@trueblue5324 2 months ago

I watched this the other day and genuinely feel so saddened how this is effecting Gary and millions of others including myself. His social interactions almost felt uncomfortable to watch at times, to the point where I just wanted to put my hand on his shoulder through the screen and tell him that there’s a whole army behind you mate, keep on fighting because the support is here, just take a look behind you, we’re all here. I love what he’s fighting for he’s got such passion and determination, he’s a proper man, a proper hero, for standing up to these elites who try to suppress us and feed us utter tripe on a daily basis. If we unite together as a whole, disregarding our differences we can make change, I do have hope, if I didn’t then I wouldn't get out of bed in the mornings. But Gary is a true warrior, I real genuine person who doesn’t change faces in different peoples company. Give yourself time to rest as well mate, but I can’t thank you enough for what you’re doing and the message that you’re sending. It will benefit our kids and our grandkids in the future and that’s all we could ever want. Love you Gary, I really mean it.

@ruimendes6538 2 months ago

Gabriel Zucman, ex-director of the World Inequality Database and founder of EU Tax Observatory writes in his recent book We Should Tax Billionaires "If all France's billionaires were to flee to the Cayman Islands tomorrow, the loss of tax revenue to the country would be insignificant: 0.03 per cent" don't be fooled, this is how little the super rich actually contribute to the system that helped them at some point to get where they are

@ellliotcmorris 2 months ago

That man just "threatened" to give British people a massive discount on the assets he owns when he flees the country. Honestly I think that point could have been hit on stronger.

@johnburton6470 2 months ago

28:30 - the courage it takes to say "I haven't enrolled in any of your courses, no. Watch out for this guy", on-cam like that, on the spot, is tremendous.