Britney's Piers
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What happens when the internet is switched off?
Good point. Also there is a chance of EMP weapons being used, and every couple of hundred years a solar flare causes an EMP towards earth aswell. I'd like to see bit coins stand up to flares, world wars, nuclear attacks, Black Death etc etc all that gold has gone through. Until then, just a fad in my opinion.
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I can't believe the thickos who voted Tory thinking they would do anything other than continue shoring up the bubble.
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To help as many people as possible, and to avoid dependency, food banks permit only three visits per year, and recipients have to have been referred by a charity or other agency. GPs are now prescribing food as well as medicine to patients.
God knows how history will record this era we are in.
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You don't need my sympathy, it sounds like you've made some rational choices about how and where you can best sell your labour for the best standard of living. The same as the polish folk you resent.
But let's not kid ourselves its not like China isn't built on robot jobs. You've (by the sound of it) just managed to put yourself a bit higher up the pile.
The truth is there will always be less desirable, less skilled, less well paid jobs. I've done a few of them! The point of productivity and efficiency gains is that they make even the lower end jobs comparatively better and better paid over time.
Ask yourself honestly which you would rather "be":
A 2013 warehouse robot
B 1920 factory foreman
C 1850 accountant
Today our lowest skilled workers have a material standard of living well above even skilled workers in the past.
I have a great deal of sympathy for people across the world but not because some of them have low end jobs.
There are some massive global imbalances to work out (I feel more sorry for the guy working in China being paid less to do the same job and provide a higher living standard for some entitled berk in the UK) and there are big problems in land ownership distribution which is why none of us except the very rich are reaping the proper rewards of increased productivity.
Crappy jobs will always exist, today's crappy jobs are less crappy than yesteryear (mostly). The reason it feels like that crappy job seems to pay little and you feel like an indentured serf is. ... Because you are.
Railing against free trade or immigration won't fix that.
Better to question why your boomer landlord is taking most of your wages for a small brick box which might cost as little as one years salary to build and what's stopping you from lowering your costs of living.
I'll give you a clue, its not the free market.
The invisible hand can't solve all problems, but it can't (on its own) put you in chains either.
Hoooold on. From what context are we discussing this problem here? The land hoarding, rent seeking, real economy we have now or the theoretical invisible hand pure capitalism economy? You can't flit between the two based on which happens to best support each individual point.
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Thats all ok if you live at home with parents, or don't need the money, or when perhaps there were more manual/unskilled jobs to walk staright into. Someone could get stressed out in a job like that if it's full on the whole time and they're struggling.
True. The phrase "going postal" in the USA literally refers to people going into post depots and other such places of work, and shooting the place up. Typically after a layoff. Sounds relaxing...
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not sure what else to expect in a stockpicking job....you get a list, you go to the location, you pick the stock, put it on your trolley, update the list, go to the next location, pick the stock, update the list....eventually you drop off your load at packing...
its a job.
The manual work is not so bad, but I think the thing that grates with these jobs is the petty authoritarianism that goes with it, bathroom breaks recorded by the second, body scans in and out, and so on. Oh and be sure to "show enthusiasm" (for what?). It's a nutty world.
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Who's we, paleface?
The original example was someone on 40k who didn't have the money to cover a 300 Gbp. bill, even when he bought a property at the lows. This was apparently an unreasonable expectation.
The report also found that while the majority of Britons are managing to put some money away, nearly a third (32%) estimated the value of their total savings and investments at less than £1,000We're talking modest savings here, not early retirement
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So we're saying that someone on 40k literally cannot put away 300 Gbp....
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I don't get how some people don't have any money to hand.
At one of my client sites the other day, one guy was ranting about an unexpected £300 bill and how it was ridiculous for them to expect payment all in one go, and before pay day.
This guy is on roughly £40k a year.
He is also old enough to have bought a house before HPI got started.
Surely he can find £300?
Parkinson's Law, expenses expand to meet available income. It's why the Mail never runs out of middle class pauper stories.
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the economy isnt run for anyone, its just interaction, politics is however (quite rightly, if people are weak enough to accept it) run for those who can impose themselves on others, its got bugger all to do with the "economy" though
That was the question asked by james goldsmith 20 years ago when free trade was ramping up.
Is the economy to serve the people, or the people the serve the economy (which would be, the political interests you mentioned).
Goldsmith has been proven correct on his ideas in hindsight. The free trade pacts were not there to help the average person, that was a scam.
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Not surprising really, the economy is far too complex to predict. However policy appears to be all about distorting reality.
Who is the economy run for?
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Technology won't change anything. Employment will stay bounded within 90-95 percent, people will have precisely 40 hours per week to do per week, always, from now until the sun consumes the earth. I've seen this with my clairvoyant abilities.
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I went to BlockBusters to rent some DVDs over Christmas. Two titles I wanted won Best Picture at the Oscars within the last decade. They stocked neither.
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This is pretty much what happened across ALL the African countries that received large amounts of aid.
High child mortality rates and lack of birth control always led to high birth rates.
Once the western food and medical aid arrived, the children stopped dying and Africa had a massive population boom.
Now they don't have enough food even with previous levels of food aid.
The solution appears to be obvious, mix birth control into the food aid.
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Sorry no I don't buy it either, even if she personally doesn't have a clue then members of her family most definitely do, Andrew and so on, you only need to read the wiki leaks cables he appears in to know he and the Firm are operators.
Ever since Diana's death and Blair the royals probably don't lift a finger without running it by umpteen publicity experts.
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I think the objection is that they are gaining huge market share with the ability to pay hardly any tax. Give UK businesses the same opportunity and see how we'd do. If we don't change the law then we can all expect to have a poorer future.
The government will never move on google, and small business getting to pay 2% like the big competition, only in your wildest dreams.
The Googles and the government work hand in glove on this, the back and forth between them is just professional show wrestling. This IS the "corporatism" that everybody talks about.
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What you really mean to say is that despite any empirical evidence you believe in the theory that man made C02 emissions will cause catastrophic global warming in the next century. Feck all those poor pensioners that are dying right now, today because energy has partly become too expensive as a result of carbon reducing policies.
You and your ilk are very dangerous indeed.
The sun heats the oceans which release CO2 back into the atmosphere, which is a boon for mother earth which was devastated by the recent ice ages of the last few million years and is choking on an oxygen atmosphere. If humans want to continue to live here they will have to adapt to these natural changes.
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Do old people live in fuel poverty because they live in houses too big for them to afford to run?
Yep,
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So Pensions...yet another so called private (City based) industry which is now de factor public sector, being sheltered from such free market forces like actually having to convince customers you are worth their money.
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Hate to say it but I'm ashamed to agree it is worth it - if you want to be able to walk to work (which'll save a ton on Tube fares) while needing a crashpad during the week. You'd probably be able to rent it out on most weekends too.
I suspect the current insanity that is London will probably mean it'll go for a quarter of a million.
London...the human bee hive.
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It's called the overton window. The media and political elites make any threatening idea off limits to public debate, they accuse anyone of bring it up as radical or weirdos. The field of what is acceptable is getting narrower.
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Then you win the lottery and tell them all to FO . I like a happy ending !
That's just the exhaust fumes sending you delirious.
very truewe have a different outlook to roughly 95%+ of the population and when theyve become bearish I'll consider becoming bullish
Agreed, many men will think they "did everything right" after all, and be bewildered how it could have happened to them, which only compounds the depression.
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A nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
Heseltine: 'no National Will To Improve Economy'
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Well China is an obvious case, but I think India is far too overrated when it comes to economic growth. India is a basketcase, ask anyone who has to deal with them.