Recession Obscenity

Snooze

mewbie wrote: »

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.

Do I detect a hint of jealousy in your post?

The simple fact of the matter is that you too can earn £x million quid per week if you get damned good at kicking a ball around a field (to list one example of many). Sitting on your @r$e moaning about those that actually got off their collective @r$es and made something of their lives won't achieve anything I'm afraid, and you'll be forever stuck in your hell-hole job selling pick n mix to grannies in Woolies.

I know that that wasn't directly what you were trying to get at, but when your slice your rant down the middle and look inside, that is basically what it comes down to : unless you're very lucky, you don't get your million quid lifestyle handed to you on a plate - you will have had to work hard for it, and if that means you can afford to buy Aston Martins when your local tat shop is shutting down laying off thousands, then so be it. That's life...

Rob

vivatifosi

I can't say as I blame Aston Martin for doing this. When Ferrari built the Enzo, its entire production of 349 cars sold out; when Bugatti built the Veyron the 2-300 cars built all sold, the same when McLaren built the F1.

The mega-rich will always find something to spend their money on while being unaffected by the issues faced by you and me. It galls me to say this, but if it keeps people employed at the AM factory while sales of other cars are down, good luck to them.

carolt

S'funny, mewbie, but I am a socialist, yet I have no problem with million pound cars.

If someone is stupid enough to want to spend a million quid on a car - which is patently not worth that much, unless it's encrusted with diamonds or something - then like the poster above, I see it as a useful way of recycling money back into the economy and redressing the balance.

TBH, in my version of socialism, I don't actually want the rich any poorer, I just want the poor richer.

If that makes sense.

Levelling up not down.

JanCee

I like that phrase "levelling up not down". It could be applied to many areas of our society, education, health, housing etc.

mewbie_2

Snooze wrote: »

Do I detect a hint of jealousy in your post?

Well duh. Yeah - I wish I could afford an Aston. I was going to write "of course I'm not jealous", but thinking about it I suppose I would love to have that sort of money.

However that's not my angle. It's the simple comparison between poverty, especially the recession created sort, and people earning the sort of money that can afford a million pound car. Wonder what that costs on a lease agreement?

As you say, "that's life". Just sometimes the unfairness, if that's what it is, seems to be in sharper focus than other times.

Anyway.. I've got ironing to do. It's tough at the top.

Snooze

mewbie wrote: »

Well duh. Yeah - I wish I could afford an Aston. I was going to write "of course I'm not jealous", but thinking about it I suppose I would love to have that sort of money.

However that's not my angle. It's the simple comparison between poverty, especially the recession created sort, and people earning the sort of money that can afford a million pound car. Wonder what that costs on a lease agreement?

As you say, "that's life". Just sometimes the unfairness, if that's what it is, seems to be in sharper focus than other times.

Anyway.. I've got ironing to do. It's tough at the top.

Proof (if FF ever needed it) that you are female after all!! :rotfl::rotfl::T:T:D

Rob

carolt

Men can iron, I believe.

Not met any that do, admittedly, but I assume it's not genetic.

I find it impossible to believe mewbie is single, so must just assume he (?) is helpful.

Or creased.

mewbie_2

Not female, not single. Ironing is one of the few things I do within the house. And the vacuuming. Am I liberated? Not really, just a couple of things that are 'my jobs' while wife does everything else.

Oh and mowing the lawn. Hmm. Struggling now.

edit: Oh and spiders of course.

bo_drinker

JoolzS wrote: »

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

Can the rich still spend in Woolworths, I can't

carolt

bo_drinker wrote: »

Can the rich still spend in Woolworths, I can't

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Love it.