A working-class kid who was expelled from school, Gary Stevenson was paid seven-figure bonuses by Citigroup while still in his twenties. He tells Jim Armitage why he had to give up his job before it killed him
After growing up in poverty he became a millionaire as a highly successful trader at Citibank, then quit at 26, feeling exhausted. These days Stevenson is an activist trying to stop the global economic system from collapsing due to rising inequality
As he tells it, the story of Gary Stevenson, a working-class geezer and self-styled YouTube economics guru is a tale worthy of a modern-day Charles Dickens.
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