Scott Galloway

Gary, where does this podcast find you?

I'm in my flat in London, East London, close to Canary Wharf.

I think there's obviously been an increase in the salience of discussions around

In particular, taxation of the rich.

If I'm totally honest, I think still when these conversations take place, as much as obviously from my perspective, it's great that they're taking place more often.

I think they are still often a little bit facile in the sense that they, and I think that is because especially in the US context, they're happening in this context of this

incredibly factional political debate where it's very much my side, your side.

And it's very frustrating for me because

My background, as you know, is I'm an economist, I'm a trader.

And what I see is rapidly growing inequality of wealth, which I think is increasingly, obviously, pretty directly causing rapidly increasing poverty, rapidly falling living standards.

And what I would like there to be is like a grown-up sensible conversation where we say, okay, how do we stop this?

But in reality, that's not really what is happening.

What tends to happen is people like...

Well, to be honest, it's often not people like me.

It's sort of become two sides.

It's like tax the rich and no, don't tax the rich because it's impossible.

And the conversation has become factional in this way that it has not really created the space, which I would say really allows anybody, even me, to have a really sensible conversation about how can we actually do this in a way that actually works.

And I think that's true on both sides, really.

I don't think anybody... And, you know, I work quite hard out here to try to find the people who are really doing the work on how can we do this sensibly.

And I'll be totally honest, those people are not getting funded, really.