The Billionaire MeToo Movement is on its way - Barry's Economics

This video is about why today’s staggering inequality and obscene billionaire wealth are way way worse than we think - and why there's a reckoning a-coming

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.

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🔎 Research Mentioned in this Video
In this video I talk about the “Smoky Room Experiment” — a psychology study by John Darley & Bibb Latané (1968). It showed how people are far less likely to act in an emergency if others in the room don’t react — something called the bystander effect.

I think it’s a really powerful way of understanding how society can “normalise” things like inequality — even when the harm is right in front of us.

📚 If you want to read more about it, here’s a good explainer: https://www.simplypsychology.org/bystander-effect.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
And for the full academic reference: Darley, J. M., & Latané, B. (1968). Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 8(4), 377–383.