HEAVY COPE
This is a sophisticated, data-grounded interview about wealth taxation featuring a credible economist making specific revenue promises (£15bn/year from a 2% wealth tax on UK billionaires) and invoking historical precedents like the 1909 People's Budget—all while saying absolutely nothing about AI or automation. The entire remedial framework depends on taxing the rich to fund public services and investment in an economy where labour generates wages, wages generate consumption, and consumption generates tax revenues. But this is precisely the circuit AI is severing. The more technically rigorous and persuasive the pitch for wealth taxation as a solution to inequality, the more dangerous it becomes by completely omitting the structural force hollowing out the employment economy it assumes. This is elite-grade omission cope—optimistic, academic, plausible, and entirely wrong about what it cannot see.