Paddy on GB News

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    alanjjohnstone
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    #239376
    ALB
    Keymaster

    Yaron Brook assumes that the capitalists who have left Britain are “entrepreneurs” as those who invest in the production of wealth but most of them will be financiers whose connection with wealth production is pretty precarious. They are not even employers of workers who produce wealth. I see in fact that his own business was “asset management” ie investing the riches of the rich on the stock exchange, etc. So a financier himself.

    According to this he is a follower of Ayn Rand and so a bit of a nutter:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_Brook

    #239381
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    I wonder if we could interest him in a further exchange with Paddy via Zoom?

    His body language betrayed his scepticism about some of the points Paddy was making.

    We won’t convince Brook but we could widen our audience base.

    #239476
    Moo
    Participant

    Firstly, excellent job, Paddy-Joe, if that is your real name. 😉

    My reaction to Yaron Brook:

    #239477
    Moo
    Participant

    A typical member of the Ayn Rand Institute:

    #239559
    paula.mcewan
    Moderator

    Hahaha thanks Moo. Not sure of the relevance but thank you for the post!

    #239560
    paula.mcewan
    Moderator

    The thing that struck me the most about the broadcast was how pundits keep telling us that rich people/entrepreneurs create wealth. This falsehood is repeated so often, without challenge, that it has become accepted as fact. It was heartwarming to hear on tv that it’s us who produce wealth not them. Maybe Paddy could have his own slot on GB News!

    #240180
    rodshaw
    Participant

    There was also quite a decent plug for the Socialist Standard by the presenter of this programme. Who’d have thought? Though he’s probably never read it and doesn’t really know what it’s about.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by rodshaw.
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