On BBC Question Time, 27 March 2025

Gary, a working class kid became a successful trader is now pointing out wealth inequality and trying to get people to save us from the super rich.

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    If you’re rich and invested in MSCI World ETF (literally the most generic mixture of stocks available) 10 years ago, on Mar 28, 2015, the stocks practically doubled (+ 107%) since then. That makes an average annual increase by 7.5%, considering how exponential growth works. (Formula is: (2.07^(1/10) - 1)*100%)

    Source: https://www.finanzen.net/index/msci-world/charttool

    This means that rich people’s assets literally proliferate by 7.5% annually, without lifting a finger. That means, it’s not their “hard earned fruits” or their “hard work”. They’re literally lazying around and their wealth increases by that amount.

    I think it’s fair to tax that. Skim the unfair proliferation of wealth. Introduce a wealth tax, make billionaires pay 7.5% of their total wealth as an annual tax.

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      Cant compete if you cant invest In private companies and sell the day they go public, its a strat that never fails? Never seen a private comoany not shoot up the day they go public and then drop heavily within that month