The more I see they way that this country has gone, the more I look at case studies examining the effects of trickle down economics, the more strongly I come to the conclusion that the horse and sparrow model of economics that has been pursued for the last 4 decades is put simply, fucking killing people.
People’s lives are being blighted and shortened, potential is wasted and ultimately suffering is exacerbated so a priveleged few can suck ever greater amounts of wealth out of society.
It’s all well and good having a two tier society in which the bottom tier have almost no chance of becoming members of the top tier. But it makes no sense for the top tier to continue widening the gap, as the bottom tier won’t be able to afford to buy their shit.
We’re heading towards a massive squeeze for the poorest in the coming months during which they will be forced to reduce their ‘luxury’ spending in order to be able to afford the bare essentials for a human to survive in this society. So how is it in the top tier’s interest to continue widening the gap?
It seems that either the people who run the economy (not just the government) are ignorant of the widening gap, or are simply powerless to stop it, because it doesn’t make sense for them to carry on.
Hmm a country run by people whose forebears were landed gentry want to make it back into rich and poor again…
Gee what a surprise….
IMO the main gulf in English society is not between the super-rich and the rest; it is between the middle class and the working class.
You walk into one town and see it completely neglected by the council and government; you walk into another and see that everything is fine.
It would not cost much money to regenerate most of these towns. Very often, even the tiniest amount of effort could go a long way. The boarded up shop windows for example: There are very cheap ways of making them not huge eye sores that they are right now. But I see nothing being done except in middle class areas, where the boards typically have fancy paintings over them.
The working classes for the most part seem to be brainwashed into accepting it. They will delude themselves that “It is not that bad” even when they’re dying of cold, mould and damp caused by their squalid housing conditions, which cost almost every penny they have.
The false and ignorant delusion that they are superior to other nations (in particular Americans) seems to be extremely crucial factor in determining their acceptance of increasingly deteriorating, third world and dystopian conditions. Currently for instance they cannot even afford the heating, making their quality of life lower in a significant way than Stone Age tribes.
While convincing those at the bottom there is a bogeyman out to take what little they have left and that voting for the Tories will mean protection from that. Divide and conquer works really well and stops those at the bottom from uniting against those at the top who are causing the real damage and doing the real taking from society.
Im not from Britain, but I would surely think the brits are not ones to sit with their arms crossed and do nothing about their current predicament, which seems to be what is happening.
Is there some kind of movement brewing? Or are people too distracted by social media, football, and working to pay the rent?
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The more I see they way that this country has gone, the more I look at case studies examining the effects of trickle down economics, the more strongly I come to the conclusion that the horse and sparrow model of economics that has been pursued for the last 4 decades is put simply, fucking killing people.
People’s lives are being blighted and shortened, potential is wasted and ultimately suffering is exacerbated so a priveleged few can suck ever greater amounts of wealth out of society.
It’s all well and good having a two tier society in which the bottom tier have almost no chance of becoming members of the top tier. But it makes no sense for the top tier to continue widening the gap, as the bottom tier won’t be able to afford to buy their shit.
We’re heading towards a massive squeeze for the poorest in the coming months during which they will be forced to reduce their ‘luxury’ spending in order to be able to afford the bare essentials for a human to survive in this society. So how is it in the top tier’s interest to continue widening the gap?
It seems that either the people who run the economy (not just the government) are ignorant of the widening gap, or are simply powerless to stop it, because it doesn’t make sense for them to carry on.
Hmm a country run by people whose forebears were landed gentry want to make it back into rich and poor again…
Gee what a surprise….
IMO the main gulf in English society is not between the super-rich and the rest; it is between the middle class and the working class.
You walk into one town and see it completely neglected by the council and government; you walk into another and see that everything is fine.
It would not cost much money to regenerate most of these towns. Very often, even the tiniest amount of effort could go a long way. The boarded up shop windows for example: There are very cheap ways of making them not huge eye sores that they are right now. But I see nothing being done except in middle class areas, where the boards typically have fancy paintings over them.
The working classes for the most part seem to be brainwashed into accepting it. They will delude themselves that “It is not that bad” even when they’re dying of cold, mould and damp caused by their squalid housing conditions, which cost almost every penny they have.
The false and ignorant delusion that they are superior to other nations (in particular Americans) seems to be extremely crucial factor in determining their acceptance of increasingly deteriorating, third world and dystopian conditions. Currently for instance they cannot even afford the heating, making their quality of life lower in a significant way than Stone Age tribes.
While convincing those at the bottom there is a bogeyman out to take what little they have left and that voting for the Tories will mean protection from that. Divide and conquer works really well and stops those at the bottom from uniting against those at the top who are causing the real damage and doing the real taking from society.
Im not from Britain, but I would surely think the brits are not ones to sit with their arms crossed and do nothing about their current predicament, which seems to be what is happening.
Is there some kind of movement brewing? Or are people too distracted by social media, football, and working to pay the rent?