Premiered on 24 May 2026 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality
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 Science
Sukhvinder Obhi: Power and neural mirrorin, McMaster University
Paul Piff: Wealth, empathy and the dose-response relationship, UC Berkeley
Roger Fisher: Preventing Nuclear War, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1981

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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