Elon Musk: A Predictable Tragedy - Barry's Economics

Nigel Farage Has Already Won (And Nobody Noticed) - Barry's Economics

Everyone is still trying to take Nigel Farage down... and every attack makes himstronger. Here's the uncomfortable truth: If you attack him: he's already won, and almost nobody hasnoticed why.Farage isn't the disease. He's the symptom. In this video I show that the entire Political strategy of beating him has failed for decades because he isn't competing in the market for policies, not at all... he's competing in the acknowledgement market, and that's a market the mainstream parties abandoned 45 years ago.Using Seligman and Maier's research on learned helplessness, the real history ofrising inequality since 1979, and a bit of economics about why some demand isinelastic, I lay out how the gap he's filling was built.... by governments of bothparties.... and why the only thing that actually shuts him down isn't attacking theman. It's closing the gap that created him.This isn't a defence of Nigel Farage. It's an argument that the way we fight him is handing him the win.No sponsors, ever.... this channel is funded by viewers:▶ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics [https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics]▶ Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics]https://paypal.me/barryseconomics [https://paypal.me/barryseconomics]Sources & further reading:Maier & Seligman (2016), "Learned Helplessness at Fifty", Psychological ReviewHope & Limberg (2020), "The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich", LSEIMF Staff Discussion Note (2015), "Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality"Römer (2022), "Poverty, Inequality Statistics and Knowledge Politics Under Thatcher"Trussell Trust / House of Commons Library (2025), food bank statistics I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics]https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics [https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics]https://paypal.me/barryseconomics [https://paypal.me/barryseconomics]https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics [https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics]Follow and leave a review if you enjoyed the episode!Mailing list sign-up: https://barryferns.co.uk/ [https://barryferns.co.uk/]You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomicsInstagram: instagram.com/barryseconomics [instagram.com/barryseconomics]Twitter: twitter.com/barryseconomics [twitter.com/barryseconomics]Substack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomics [https://substack.com/@barryseconomics]BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social]Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/ [https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/]If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first! His channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00 [https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00]Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns [https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns]To learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here: https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/ [https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/]

An Earl Stole The Sandwich. The Rich Still Use The Trick - Barry's Economics

In 1762, the Earl of Sandwich asked for meat between two slices of bread. Did he invent the Sandwich? Maybe Not - As People had been doing this for centuries. But he had power, prestige, and profile, so he got to "name" it.Economics works exactly the same way."Job Creators." "GDP growth." "Trickle-down." These aren't neutral terms but are the stories written by people with naming rights. Filmed in Sandwich, Kent. Yes, really.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics]https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics [https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics]https://paypal.me/barryseconomics [https://paypal.me/barryseconomics]If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first! His channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00 [https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00]Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns [https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns]To learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here: https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/ [https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/]

The Real Reason For The Zombie Boom? Follow The Money - Barry's Economics

For seventy years, the world barely made zombie films. Then, right around the turn of the century, that changed, and we haven't stopped since. The biggest Franchises of all time: The Walking Dead. The Last of Us. Game of Thrones. World War Z. 28 Days Later. Why now? Why all at once?This isn't a video about horror - it's why millions of people, with no coordination between them, started picturing the exact same thing at the exact same moment in history.Featuring the behavioural science of George Lakoff, Richard Thaler, Daniel Kahneman and Walter Mischel's famous marshmallow test, plus design ethicist Tristan Harris on "the race to the bottom of the brainstem," and the Facebook founder who went on the record about exactly what these apps were built to do to you.Stick around to the end. I promised hope, and unlike most zombie films, this one actually has survivors.I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics]https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics [https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics]https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics [https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics]Follow and leave a review if you enjoyed the episode!Mailing List: https://barryferns.co.uk/ [https://barryferns.co.uk/]You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomics [tiktok.com/@barryseconomics]Instagram: instagram.com/barryseconomics [instagram.com/barryseconomics]Twitter: twitter.com/barryseconomics [twitter.com/barryseconomics]Substack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomics [https://substack.com/@barryseconomics]BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social]Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/ [https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/]If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first! His channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00 [https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00]Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns [https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns]To learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here: https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/ [https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/]

What Banksy Shows Us About Power - Barry's Economics

Filmed in front of over 20 original Banksy works across London and Bristol.This is a video about what Banksy keeps showing us, how he actually works, and why (after all this time) he's still relevant and properly revolutionary.And the answer isn't actually "because his prints sell for a lot." In fact it's almost the opposite of that.Most people know Banksy as a street artist. This video is about what he's actually doing. What he keeps pointing at. Why the establishment can't touch him, and why that fact alone tells you something important about how power and money really work.Also - For the Banksy Tour Guide that helped me around Bristol - The Lovely Luke Sergent - go to https://blackbeard2banksy.com/ [https://blackbeard2banksy.com/ ]to book a tour from himREFERENCES:ELINOR OSTROM:https://www.actu-environnement.com/media/pdf/ostrom_1990.pdf [https://www.actu-environnement.com/media/pdf/ostrom_1990.pdf]GARRETT HARDINhttps://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Modeling/Hardin,%20Tragedy%20of%20the%20Commons.pdf [https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Modeling/Hardin,%20Tragedy%20of%20the%20Commons.pdf]https://archive.org/details/makingofenglishw0000thom_p8v7 [https://archive.org/details/makingofenglishw0000thom_p8v7]Gerald Marwel and Ruth Ames Social Experiement:"Economists free ride, does anyone else?: Experiments on the provision of public goods"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004727278190013X [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004727278190013X]"Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation" Study:https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fjep.7.2.159 [https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fjep.7.2.159]I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics]https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics [https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics]https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics [https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics]Follow and leave a review for future episodes!Mailing list: https://barryferns.co.uk/ [https://barryferns.co.uk/]You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomics [tiktok.com/@barryseconomics]Instagram: instagram.com/barryseconomics [instagram.com/barryseconomics]Twitter: twitter.com/barryseconomics [twitter.com/barryseconomics]Substack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomics [https://substack.com/@barryseconomics]BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social]Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/ [https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/]If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first! His channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00 [https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00]Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns [https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns]To learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here: https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/ [https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/]

Elon Musk: A Predictable Tragedy - Barry's Economics

Elon Musk. Tesla. Spacex. Cybertrucks. Solar Power... not your normal supervillain origin story. But the neuroscience explains everything.Do you remember when we all kind of liked Elon Musk?Electric cars. Space travel. Solar panels. He felt like the closest thing we had to a real-life Tony Stark.And now he's... this.Nobody's asking the right question. Not "what did he do?" but "what happened to him?" Because there's a scientific answer. And the unsettling part isn't what it says about Elon Musk. It's what it says about everyone with that much power.Fifty years of peer-reviewed research on power, wealth and the brain from Columbia, Berkeley and McMaster University, shows that power isn't a metaphor for corruption. It's a corruption toxin. It does measurable damage to specific neural pathways. This is the psychology of billionaires. This is the neuroscience of wealth and power. And this is why Elon Musk was always going to become this.Galinsky et al. (2006) :Power and Perspectives Not Taken, Psychological ScienceSukhvinder Obhi: Power and neural mirrorin, McMaster UniversityPaul Piff: Wealth, empathy and the dose-response relationship, UC BerkeleyRoger Fisher: Preventing Nuclear War, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1981I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics]https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics [https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics]https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics [https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics]Follow and leave a review if you enjoyed the episode!Mailing list sign-up: https://barryferns.co.uk/ [https://barryferns.co.uk/]You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomics [tiktok.com/@barryseconomics]Instagram: instagram.com/barryseconomics [instagram.com/barryseconomics]Twitter: twitter.com/barryseconomics [twitter.com/barryseconomics]Substack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomics [https://substack.com/@barryseconomicshttps://substack.com/@barryseconomics]BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social]Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/ [https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/]If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first! His channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00 [https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00]Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns [https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryferns]To learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here: https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/ [https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/]