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EPISODE · Jun 21, 2026 · 46 MIN

Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. How scared should you be?

from Garys Economics · host Gary Stevenson

If unstopped, the trillionaires will eventually have no choice but to take everything from you, your children and your grandchildren. Here's how it happens (and how to stop them).TAX WEALTH NOT WORK tshirt: https://shop.garyseconomics.org/CHAPTERS(00:00) Intro(00:21) What is a trillion?(03:03) What does Musk own?(06:56) Should you be worried?(13:00) They will own everything(16:27) Victorian levels of poverty will return(18:17) Do you want your kids to own things?(21:08) Is this a new feudalism?(26:31) You will lose to the trillionaires(28:33) Colonialism and the Industrial Revolution(34:35) Tax wealth not work(36:21) My predictions came true(38:45) What are you going to do?(43:32) More in common with each other than with Elon Musk 

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