GreenWarwick Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 A book by David Boyle appears to be attracting good reviews.. http://www.david-boyle.co.uk/broke/ Broke- How To Survive The Middle Class Crisis Wonder if anyone here read it yet...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbeth79 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 If you want it reviewed then send me a copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spaniard Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Why are banking salaries making a mockery of their professions? Basically because the existence of our essential and legally sanctioned medium of exchange depends upon commercial bankers lending it to us at interest. Give any group of people that power and incrementally everyone else becomes a debt slave. For the obvious sensible alternative of a collectively (i.e. publicly) issued, debt-free, persistently circulating money supply see: http://www.positivemoney.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothemaths Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 A book by David Boyle appears to be attracting good reviews.. http://www.david-boyle.co.uk/broke/ Broke- How To Survive The Middle Class Crisis Wonder if anyone here read it yet...? Thanks, David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver surfer Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 A comfortable home. Good school, private healthcare. A couple of holidays a year. The aspirations of the middle class have always been modest, realistic and, of course, affordable It's not that modest then is it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenWarwick Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 It's not that modest then is it. Think two things at play here. Firstly the triumph of the babyboomers and their tacit support for the appalling escalation in property prices will militate against people in similar occupations to their parents from ever achieving the same lifestyle enjoyed by those same parents. Secondly as you say, perhaps what was deemed "modest" was never really viable for anyone apart from the babyboomers, and we are approaching the point where centrist social democracy can not survive much longer in the modern version of super globalised capitalism Perhaps this is the case below: "Long before today’s urgencies struck, European governments of the left, right, and centre alike spent incontinently and told the recipients that the borrowed cash was little sort of their birthright." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2137391/The-European-crisis-fault-capitalism-result-eroding-social-democracy.html#ixzz2uGTVlM5g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbeth79 Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Thanks, David. It never ceases to amaze me the number of authors that post links to their books, on how brilliant it is and why we should buy it so that they can get rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenWarwick Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 It never ceases to amaze me the number of authors that post links to their books, on how brilliant it is and why we should buy it so that they can get rich. Really? Are you referring to my opening post? The death of the middle classes is a topic directly related to house price inflation, hence my interest. I most certainly am not the author, and indeed don't even live in Britain. Rather, I was genuinely interested to see if anyone had came across or perused this book before I decide whether it's worth shelling out via ordering through the net or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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