gary stevenson is a multi-millionaire
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with a particular interest in top pay
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first of all annabelle
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are willing to
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to provide services that consumers are
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or remunerated very highly
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we argue that um
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it'll somehow trickle down to those at
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the bottom that simply isn't the case
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with knee-jerk eat the rich policies
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should tax somebody like denise coats
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do sometimes struggle with is the idea
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that that individual is producing
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value but that's that's not the case i
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contingent on on their skills gary
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an hour at some point in your career
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you feel about it
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48 000 pounds an hour um
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so look i'm from a poor background and i
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is for people from poor backgrounds
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interesting there which is about this is
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i understand that market helps poor
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so when she looked around the market for
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who were the best ceos well she picked
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take that job she chose
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480 million pounds so when we look at
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really taken the most talented person
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owner of the company
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to pay herself 480 million pounds i
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companies picking the best talents
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paying themselves as much as they want
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from from denise because she's
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merely an example and and one of the
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if if governments don't tackle the issue
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in some way i mean i'm i'm listening to
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annabelle and and gary's points but but
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it is escalating is it not and there has
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think it's actually really important to
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how hard she's worked because
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her pay award is about 15 000 times the
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median pay for full-time work in the uk
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leaving her salary aside because you
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annabelle just the idea that you know
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you know significantly more uh
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distributed within companies and with
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in society more widely um yeah so
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that annabelle made which is that it's
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a huge amount of wealth
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on the education and healthcare systems
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their products around
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because actually many of the capital
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and the same applies to how sorry
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quite strange practices such as share
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buy back to their companies we use their
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and towards society and
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indeed yeah thank you thank you for that
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tweeted me um
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and i as i said he wanted to take it
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away from denise coats she just happens
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aloe has tweeted me saying 80 personal
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in taxes didn't she and gary that there
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mentioned very often in reports of of
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what denise coates earned which is that
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charitable foundation so can we rely
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can we rely on the the tax that they pay
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in order to level things out you know
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what mariella i really really wish that
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and i really wish that they all did pay
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their taxes but unfortunately if we look
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at the very wealthiest people in society
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and then we look at how much taxes they
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paid in the cases where we can see that
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they often pay very very low percentage
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much less than
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you or i or you know often much less
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than lowly paid people such as cleaners
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made enough money they can give money
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on philanthropy to fix our broken
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it's certainly not going to work we'll
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doesn't really seem to be fair
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seem that the super rich
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rest of us pay
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whatever and that
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there are areas um
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it does not work for um those who are
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absolutely would support the notion of
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interesting points made earlier in the
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discussion i'd like to come back on
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coefficient in the 1980s because we
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finance and entertainment and leisure
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however since the early 1990s we haven't
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um inaccurate i've also just come back
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on one of the points made earlier around
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that that was
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a bad thing surely we want our ceos to
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have skin in the game and be
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invested in the success of the company
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team for or indeed running um
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in terms of
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pay has gone up substantially since
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the 1980s um but i mean says the cost of
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in in real terms does it
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can come up with different conclusions
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earn more you can therefore invest in
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hasn't always been the case
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primarily about creating value for
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gary is that something that that you
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well i think there's definitely a change
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in the way that um companies behave and
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um you can definitely see there's a lot
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of pressure to push up share prices but
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where the wealth inequality has
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increased because i think this is really
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really important you know i'm a wealthy
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i talk to top global experts in this
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gabriel zuckman at berkeley
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and they say that there is no doubt that
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the share of world held by the super
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that it hasn't it's because they're
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looking at data which is coming from
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we'll give you a 15 pound amazon voucher
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find that the super rich
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tend not to fit in these surveys for a
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15 amazon voucher so i just want to say
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that we're necessarily going to
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um ci to either i suppose i would just
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that the genie coefficient hasn't
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longer for wealth uh inequality but you
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panelists which is
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the chasm is widening on a fast scale
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one year from one year to the next
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i've just been talking to someone
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coming up with a new commission talking
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million children so actually when you
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that that people that society
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in in general is getting richer i mean
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gary this is something that you sort of
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bet on if i can put it like that i mean
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it's it's quite um in congress in a way
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that that you were so committed to
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economies are going to collapse
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background i wanted to make money
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that we would recover next year so i had
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in my opinion if we don't fix inequality
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that will mean all of the money goes to
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the rich who use it to buy house prices
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none to use it to buy houses pushing
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house prices up none of it will go to
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multi-millionaire but you
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as the answer yeah i think definitely
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um it's really important to emphasize
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her father was a multi-millionaire when
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now she's a multi-millionaire with the
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only if their parents had houses you
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know so we're in a situation where you
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super rich families rather than just
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people so for me
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on the super rich but
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haven't they so so annabelle
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incentivizing people
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is it about a reformed tax system that
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means that you can't just i mean i know
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in terms of sort of closing down those
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and how great it is
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point you know i think that
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and it distracts from the very important
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for instance then
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it can lead to lower revenues for the
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hit those at the lower
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because actually we all benefit
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country actually being
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you know operating well as a result of
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having dustbin men and roads fixed and
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and that does seem to be a particular
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um 8.8 pounds 92 is the is the
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latest level for the minimum wage and
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of a maximum wage
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less than three percent of earners i
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mean what what do you think about a wage
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is it even workable yeah so
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the piece of research we did about that
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rather about demonstrating just how much
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i'd want to think much more carefully
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saying definitively yes or no but
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thinking about taxes taxing the rich um
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basically workers don't have the
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say
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um high levels of trade union influence
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um so i'd say where we actually need to
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determining their own working lives so
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i mean they invest their labor and their
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sense that they would actually
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um be involved in this decision okay
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we're we're running out of time i'm
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afraid very fast so i want to ask all of
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first thing that you would do
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in order to try and make things a bit
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that is the key that is one that's going
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uniformly across europe and in the u.s i
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economic life for ordinary people that
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is a dream and that is a magic wand
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wealthy people just move off to
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monaco or wherever well i mean if you
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look at the 60s where we had high
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hacks on the rich all across europe
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every country has this problem
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every country has the same problem of
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the wealthy taking way too much and
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leaving not enough for the rest of us so
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then they can't run away annabelle
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taxes have later abandoned them which
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don't work um i think that
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you know we have a nearly five million
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it is unwound unfortunately
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a lot of those people are not going to
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hit by the pandemic
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deregulate um the employment
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companies to take on workers
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very much and rachel
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yeah exactly redistributing power within
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stevenson annabelle denham and rachel k
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thank you for joining me here at times
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from a crisis
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stump for 50 years
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