Remember Thatcher’s final Commons speech? The bigger the gap the better as she believed everyone is better off for it. The poor may be further from the rich but they are wealthier than in a world where the gap is smaller. This is what she actually seemed to believed.
The worst part about this is that most people don’t see any connection between exactly this, and the way they actually see the world.
They don’t understand that people working “shitty” jobs being paid less than the amount needed to survive is precisely this.
No one should be working a full time job and still be, by every metric, poor to the brink of destitution.
But by having the people who actually run the country – we called them “Key Workers” for two fucking years – get paid less than they need to live is a system designed to keep its largest cohort of workers unable to actually survive, thereby preventing them from doing anything about it.
The idea that “people just need a better job” is also this precise idea – that “poor people deserve to be poor”.
Newsthump with those genius levels of satire yet again.
“We hate the poor, haha! Say Tories”
Give job at Newsthump.
The poor aren’t starving enough to be useful yet, keep kicking them tories, keep kicking
Well the shareholders and investors in the Conservative Party have waited long enough to be honest – imagine giving all those donations and not even having the ceiling on your bonuses removed? Or your tax burden eased? Or all that investment in fracking kit sat waiting around for someone to overrule the nimbys? Quite frankly if I’ve paid for a service, I expect it to be delivered.
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If the poor and middle class are able to gather resources, they might forgo a weeks wages to strike, they may join together and protest. Keep them close to the breadline and they will fear the consequences of those possibilities.
Guys, you can’t do satire if the satire is what they’re actively doing and thinking.
With the planned scrap of the working time directive coming soon, we will soon have to work harder to be as poor as we are now.
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Doesn’t even need to be satire.
Remember Thatcher’s final Commons speech? The bigger the gap the better as she believed everyone is better off for it. The poor may be further from the rich but they are wealthier than in a world where the gap is smaller. This is what she actually seemed to believed.
The worst part about this is that most people don’t see any connection between exactly this, and the way they actually see the world.
They don’t understand that people working “shitty” jobs being paid less than the amount needed to survive is precisely this.
No one should be working a full time job and still be, by every metric, poor to the brink of destitution.
But by having the people who actually run the country – we called them “Key Workers” for two fucking years – get paid less than they need to live is a system designed to keep its largest cohort of workers unable to actually survive, thereby preventing them from doing anything about it.
The idea that “people just need a better job” is also this precise idea – that “poor people deserve to be poor”.
Newsthump with those genius levels of satire yet again.
“We hate the poor, haha! Say Tories”
Give job at Newsthump.
The poor aren’t starving enough to be useful yet, keep kicking them tories, keep kicking
Well the shareholders and investors in the Conservative Party have waited long enough to be honest – imagine giving all those donations and not even having the ceiling on your bonuses removed? Or your tax burden eased? Or all that investment in fracking kit sat waiting around for someone to overrule the nimbys? Quite frankly if I’ve paid for a service, I expect it to be delivered.
/s
If the poor and middle class are able to gather resources, they might forgo a weeks wages to strike, they may join together and protest. Keep them close to the breadline and they will fear the consequences of those possibilities.
Guys, you can’t do satire if the satire is what they’re actively doing and thinking.
With the planned scrap of the working time directive coming soon, we will soon have to work harder to be as poor as we are now.