Recession Obscenity

mewbie_2

Not what you think perhaps. It's a sensible thread which I will now get to the point of.

The headline is Aston Martin lays off more workers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/8144379.stm

The obscenity is that they are producing a million pound motor car. That's a car for very very rich people, some of them footballers, but of course others as well. Normal "hard working" people are losing jobs, while a top tier of extremely rich people are keeping theirs. And not sharing any.

Now I'm honestly not a Socialist (anymore), but it strikes me that especially in these times, when people who work in Woolworths for example lose their incomes - that there is something very wrong with the society we have created. The new Gods are the wealthy celebrities - where the real heroes are the people who work shovelling !!!!!! to enable society to function.

A million pound car versus a family on the breadline. I think it's obscene.

CLAPTON

mewbie wrote: »

Not what you think perhaps. It's a sensible thread which I will now get to the point of.

The headline is Aston Martin lays off more workers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/8144379.stm

The obscenity is that they are producing a million pound motor car. That's a car for very very rich people, some of them footballers, but of course others as well. Normal "hard working" people are losing jobs, while a top tier of extremely rich people are keeping theirs. And not sharing any.

Now I'm honestly not a Socialist (anymore), but it strikes me that especially in these times, when people who work in Woolworths for example lose their incomes - that there is something very wrong with the society we have created. The new Gods are the wealthy celebrities - where the real heroes are the people who work shovelling !!!!!! to enable society to function.

A million pound car versus a family on the breadline. I think it's obscene.

did it used to be diffferent then?
were the pyramids built for people working in woolies

fc123

mewbie wrote: »

Now I'm honestly not a Socialist (anymore)..............

That's because you are now A Communist.

Thrugelmir

mewbie wrote: »

Not what you think perhaps. It's a sensible thread which I will now get to the point of.

The headline is Aston Martin lays off more workers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/8144379.stm

The obscenity is that they are producing a million pound motor car. That's a car for very very rich people, some of them footballers, but of course others as well. Normal "hard working" people are losing jobs, while a top tier of extremely rich people are keeping theirs. And not sharing any.

Now I'm honestly not a Socialist (anymore), but it strikes me that especially in these times, when people who work in Woolworths for example lose their incomes - that there is something very wrong with the society we have created. The new Gods are the wealthy celebrities - where the real heroes are the people who work shovelling !!!!!! to enable society to function.

A million pound car versus a family on the breadline. I think it's obscene.

Maybe when we reach 3 million unemployed and few new jobs being created. We shall start to see a backlash against the nouveau riche. Who in many cases don't justify theiir extortinate wages.

We complain about the new boss of RBS. But Frank Lampard can earn £5m a year without comment. Something has gone wrong in our society.

JoolzS

I'm trying to work out what your problem is. If Aston Martin stops building cars then everyone employed by the plant ends up unemployed. The rich people who buy the cars will simply buy a car made elsewhere.

Do you somehow think that if a very rich person couldn't buy an Aston Martin car, they might spend their money in Woolworths?

Your post is very strange.

Julie

Degenerate

The million pound car is a useful device for extracting money from rich people and putting it back to productive use in the economy.

Lotus-eater

mewbie wrote: »

The new Gods are the wealthy celebrities

Not to me and not to many people.

However, I do agree with you that they are the Gods to many in this country, Too many probably, I was only talking about this the other day to the OH while some Z list celebs were on some program, I hadn't heard of any of them, famous for being famous springs to mind. Just how many celebrities do we actually have in this country, I asked.
Too many, was the reply. There seems no sense of reality, they earn so much for so little, the top earning footballers earn so much, they don't know where to spend it all, so they buy stuff that makes many of us just laugh at them.
I don't think they should stop making Astons though far from it.

Graham_Devon

I can definately see the sentiment of the post.

However, there will always be rich and poor, unless we go down a strict socialism and redistribution of wealth path, which would just totally ruin the country. Why would I go to work when I can get roughly the same amount for having a constant holiday?!

The celeb thing is a recent thing. People earning money just for being someones uncle comes from the way society have gone. We are now obsessed with voting for gameshows, a millimetre of fat on someones hip etc. I don't know why that is and don't want to start guessing really, but our IQ as a nation I believe is also going down?

I think it's a US / UK thing. Don't think it happens in europe so much?

ruggedtoast

Rich people spending money is a good thing afaik. Especially when the thing theyre buying doesnt cost anything like what they paid for it

mewbie_2

JoolzS wrote: »

I'm trying to work out what your problem is.... Your post is very strange.

My problems are many and varied, but that's another story. However, the purpose of my post was to let off a little steam over the disparity between top earners and the bottom. I am not suggesting we all get paid the same, or the top earners are taxed any more than currently (although tax avoidance could be tightened) - in fact I do not have an answer to making life a little fairer.

Really it was just an observation - pity about the workers being laid off, how terrible must that feel for someone - and then staggered to see that they produce a car that costs a million pounds, who on earth can spend a million pounds on a car.

So no answers and not much point - just another typical mewbie post.

michaels

Keeping score?

I don't feel more or less able to keep my family warm, fed and happy whether someone else can afford a £1m car or not. That others have more or less does not matter to me. I neither follow the celeb mags nor sit twitching the front curtain; it does not matter to me what some strangers or my neighbours have in comparison to me.