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Why do we work? The obvious answer is: Because we have to. But what if that's only part of the story? This week's video looks at the biggest lie you've been told about your own motivation, scarcity, UBI experiments and the rather uncomfortable possibility that if we looked at the studies and acted on them we come.... become more powerful than we could possibly imagine. It might give us the freedom to actually do something. 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. No sponsors, ever.... this channel is funded by viewers: ▶ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics ▶ Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics https://paypal.me/barryseconomics 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. Chapters 00:00 - 01:09 Introduction 01:09 - 01:54 The objection to redistribution 01:54 - 02:14 The underlying question 02:14 - 06:34 Addiction unmasked 06:34 - 11:48 How having less affects us 11:48 - 14:44 The fundamental attribution error 14:44 - 18:58 Self-serving bias 18:58 - 29:00 Where redistribution has been used 29:00 - 30:28 The motivation myth 30:28 - 33:51 Lets change the story How to Support Barry’s Economics Help us stay independent and keep making videos like this. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics https://paypal.me/barryseconomics https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics Subscribe for future videos: https://www.youtube.com/@barryeconomics More about me: https://barryferns.co.uk/ Mailing List Sign-up: https://tr.ee/0BKMVw You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomics Instagram: instagram.com/barryseconomics Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0vgya63dtCFD5tjODr7BEK?si=Bb6ftvByR1-6vG0Q2BTmMg Twitter: twitter.com/barryseconomics Substack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomics BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/ If you’re new to this, check out @garyseconomics 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 Want to see the stand-up side of all this? Find my live comedy and storytelling here: 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/ Sources & further reading Bruce K. Alexander et al. The "Rat Park" experiments, Simon Fraser University, c. 1978–1981 Alexander, Coambs & Hadaway, Psychopharmacology (1978) Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (2013) Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir & Zhao "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function", Science (2013) Ross Levine & Yona Rubinstein "Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More?", Quarterly Journal of Economics (2017 Finnish Basic Income Experiment Final results, Kela / Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (2020) Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) Preliminary results (2021) Evelyn Forget "The Town with No Poverty" (2011), analysis of the Mincome experiment GiveDirectly Universal Basic Income study, Kenya, ongoing since 2011 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality #BehaviouralEconomics #SocialJustice #BarryFerns #ComedyWithDepth