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"The two characteristics immanent in the credit system are, on the one hand, to develop the incentive of capitalist production, enrichment through exploitation of the labour of others, to the purest and most colossal form of gambling and swindling, and to reduce more and more the number of the few who exploit the social wealth; on the other hand, to constitute the form of transition to a new mode of production." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/17/marx-banker-china-social-disparity
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Psychology of crowds. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindividuation#section_1
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Yep. Rises dramatically if you look at '"at least 5 yrs out of the last 7", which could include 24 months of scattered employment throughout 7 yrs period. It's a picture of short employment periods on a background of unemployment. http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/adhoc_analysis/2011/jsa_benefit_history.pdf
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Around 5k people in the UK have been unemployed for over 5yrs. Lower or higher than you thought?
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On iplayer. 1 min in, too pi**ed off with the bleating muppets to listen. Will someone else suffer the pain of listening and report back?
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On today. At noon "Is it the next mis-selling scandal ?" Can we have some HPC emails to the programme?.Nip this one in the bud. Link soon. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/youandyours_contact.shtml
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Those damn research scientists with their flash cars and mansions…
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If anyone's interested there's some new research on altruism and self interest in this months Nature. Looks like altruism is an immediate response, driven by the immediate seeing of a need in others. Self interest is a less immediate response, calculated slow greed. Any who, was it Erasmus who said we have just enough free will to see how deterministic our lives are?
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Didn't she spend the last years of her life dependant on welfare handouts?
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Property Loans Contribution To Gdp…
jaspers replied to jaspers's topic in House prices and the economy
'Its thought seems to be that as long as 50% of Conservative party funding comes from the big banks and there is a lack of real political will to change banking structure' NuLab knew all about land price bubbles, demographic and home ownership rates, cynically using the above to support the voting demographic in a Credit Bubble. Those who benifit most from credit bubbles provide 50% of Conservative Party funding. The lack of will to change as it might 'hurt' the homeowning voting electorate and the massive lobbying by the Banks means change seems as far away as ever. -
"Repurposing the role of banks – for instance, away from their grotesque interest in property loans, up from 5% to 18% of GDP in the decade from 2000 – towards the real economy, should be a no-brainer. But the big beasts lining up to take on this fight are strangely few in number." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/02/big-beasts-change-banking
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Everything On The High Street Is Doomed
jaspers replied to chris25's topic in House prices and the economy
The Market nr me at the moment is in a North Nottinghamshire ex-mining town. Stalls are your basic fruit, veg, meat and fish. No 'Artisan' bread malarkey! Market runs down pedestrianised high st. Could it be a model that works? With young family's often needing two wage earners to pay high living costs, makes it more difficult to do a food shop during the day I suppose. That and the appeal of a warm supermarket on a cold wet day. Factors which may not apply to our southern European cousins? -
Everything On The High Street Is Doomed
jaspers replied to chris25's topic in House prices and the economy
Free parking and the return of the 'market town' markets will save certain high streets. Fresh food cheaper than supermarkets, food stalls, and market traders. Open in the evening. Just an idea, Mary Portas. -
Booker: It Is Wind Power That Will Send Our Bills Sky-High
jaspers replied to punter's topic in Current affairs
Would some kind of large elastic band help? Tightens up when windy to release when it stops blowing Am just about to start reading "The Pseudoscience Wars", a small piece about it in the latest issue of Nature. -
Booker: It Is Wind Power That Will Send Our Bills Sky-High
jaspers replied to punter's topic in Current affairs
That would have been a fantastic opportunity for the worlds largest Crazy Golf course. -
Consumer Borrowing Surges In September
jaspers replied to Errol's topic in House prices and the economy
All my neighbours are pensioners. One new extension being built, one garden landscaped, someone getting a new drive, I'm getting a new door… -
Booker: It Is Wind Power That Will Send Our Bills Sky-High
jaspers replied to punter's topic in Current affairs
Pensioners have had the biggest real increase in incomes over the past 35yrs. They can afford to pay for a few chuffing windmills. Wouldn't give the landowners a penny either. But to answer why and how means going over the whole land value tax arguement again. -
Booker: It Is Wind Power That Will Send Our Bills Sky-High
jaspers replied to punter's topic in Current affairs
The only damage windfarms do to the environment is to the view of a small number of country landowners. -
No. Represents a generation passing through constant corporate capitalist devotion to the idea of the needs of a generated "individual". "Individual" in the meaning of a vacuous identity based on brands. A 'collective individualism' so to speak, step out of line and feel the wrath of shame and condemnation from your peers and the media. A corporate capitalism whose job it is to spin lies, encourage false desires and remove hope for real change. A generation with no jobs who riot to steal overpriced trainers made cheaply by young employed Chinese for the benifit of global corporations. A generation in a demographic cul-de-sac. If you think the actions of a few teachers trying to teach kids to read and write have any power against this behemoth you're a fool. Meanwhile those in receipt of real educational privilege, where the reality of how to 'get on' in life is really known are laughing all the way to the City from their charity status schools.