Think of our perception of capitalism as closer to your great grandparents’. Your statement of thatcher implies UK, so think before the unions and the council housing and for us yanks before the NHS. And with an oncoming doom from climate change. And that’s in addition to the technofuedalism. The benefits of privatization increasingly feel like a bold faced lie to us
Maybe. My great grandparents escaped from Poland and Russia in the first decade of the twentieth century. I don’t know what you’d call it as a geographic area.
I remember, with a small child’s view, the seventies. It was really shite. Weak leaders, unions asking the physically impossible, wild inflation (25+% vs a kinda normal 5-7%), strikes and poverty. ‘managed decline’ was the way it was described in the civil service: the airplane is fucked but we’re going for a soft landing. 2020 here is like the seventies writ small. The UK had no choice but to join the EU.
The UK contributes less than 2% to greenhouse gases but our idiots are pushing climate change costs onto us - or maybe it’s labelled climate change but the taxes is just trying to keep us the country afloat. What we learned from Mrs T was that 70s style tax burdens don’t work. The halving of the tax rates doubled the revenue and suddenly punk became synth and new romantics.
I think the real change was the second wave emancipation of women. House prices went wild because there were now two serious incomes per household to multiply by 4 or 5. People were buying houses on self- certification of income, never making a mortgage payment, and still selling the house at a huge profit. The thing exploded, like in the US, as you’d expect. The government didn’t raise interest rates to combat the excess money now in the system and pop-goes-the- weasel.
Selling off the infrastructure was a dream to build wealth for small shareholders, mirroring the US - I have a SEC Series 7 Traders qualification for work - but the Brits are sadly a more disconnected lot. Every budget raids our pensions funds because we don’t care about them until the day before we retire. I’m guessing small shareholders are a small minority now.
After the nineties We’ve had a succession of weak leaders, each tacitly claiming to be the new Mrs T. Boris filled his mates pockets with the cash meant for COVID and locked down the working man.
Now we’ve got a naive ex-chief prosecutor ‘authoritarian’ in who is as weak as fuck pandering to every liberal cause you can shake a stick at. Violent prisoners being released, people jailed for sending a tweet; serious honours given out for the mayor of London who has failed by any metric you care to name, but someone has elected him three times in a row. Mind you, the opposition candidate was particularly hopeless this time.
It’s all very reminiscent of Neil Kinnock failing miserably to walk unaided on a beach, having being surprised by the presence of water, staging a election victory before the day and losing the general election as a result to a complete twat.
Meanwhile, if climate change was actually important to you all, you’d tackle the major polluters of this world. China also owns Africa for the minerals and large quantities of the US, India lives in abject poverty as the largest population in the world. Not a damn thing was said.
Think of our perception of capitalism as closer to your great grandparents’. Your statement of thatcher implies UK, so think before the unions and the council housing and for us yanks before the NHS. And with an oncoming doom from climate change. And that’s in addition to the technofuedalism. The benefits of privatization increasingly feel like a bold faced lie to us
Maybe. My great grandparents escaped from Poland and Russia in the first decade of the twentieth century. I don’t know what you’d call it as a geographic area.
I remember, with a small child’s view, the seventies. It was really shite. Weak leaders, unions asking the physically impossible, wild inflation (25+% vs a kinda normal 5-7%), strikes and poverty. ‘managed decline’ was the way it was described in the civil service: the airplane is fucked but we’re going for a soft landing. 2020 here is like the seventies writ small. The UK had no choice but to join the EU.
The UK contributes less than 2% to greenhouse gases but our idiots are pushing climate change costs onto us - or maybe it’s labelled climate change but the taxes is just trying to keep us the country afloat. What we learned from Mrs T was that 70s style tax burdens don’t work. The halving of the tax rates doubled the revenue and suddenly punk became synth and new romantics.
I think the real change was the second wave emancipation of women. House prices went wild because there were now two serious incomes per household to multiply by 4 or 5. People were buying houses on self- certification of income, never making a mortgage payment, and still selling the house at a huge profit. The thing exploded, like in the US, as you’d expect. The government didn’t raise interest rates to combat the excess money now in the system and pop-goes-the- weasel.
Selling off the infrastructure was a dream to build wealth for small shareholders, mirroring the US - I have a SEC Series 7 Traders qualification for work - but the Brits are sadly a more disconnected lot. Every budget raids our pensions funds because we don’t care about them until the day before we retire. I’m guessing small shareholders are a small minority now.
After the nineties We’ve had a succession of weak leaders, each tacitly claiming to be the new Mrs T. Boris filled his mates pockets with the cash meant for COVID and locked down the working man.
Now we’ve got a naive ex-chief prosecutor ‘authoritarian’ in who is as weak as fuck pandering to every liberal cause you can shake a stick at. Violent prisoners being released, people jailed for sending a tweet; serious honours given out for the mayor of London who has failed by any metric you care to name, but someone has elected him three times in a row. Mind you, the opposition candidate was particularly hopeless this time.
It’s all very reminiscent of Neil Kinnock failing miserably to walk unaided on a beach, having being surprised by the presence of water, staging a election victory before the day and losing the general election as a result to a complete twat.
Meanwhile, if climate change was actually important to you all, you’d tackle the major polluters of this world. China also owns Africa for the minerals and large quantities of the US, India lives in abject poverty as the largest population in the world. Not a damn thing was said.