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BBC show on council housing now - 21:00 4th May
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pinkteapot wrote: »Her husband works so money will be very tight if she doesn't work much for a while but they'll survive.
as i thought. she doesn't actually need to work. you always get a very different attitude from those who need to work. it's one thing i like to get a sense of when recruiting. those who don't need to work are far more fussy / less likely to put up with stuff in a job.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
as i thought. she doesn't actually need to work. you always get a very different attitude from those who need to work. it's one thing i like to get a sense of when recruiting. those who don't need to work are far more fussy / less likely to put up with stuff in a job.
After paying the mortgage and household bills they'll have about £15 a month left. So yes, she definitely needs to work in the long term. They'll be eating into savings if she doesn't at all for a little while. And as I said, it's her choice to go onto the zero hours contract.
I asked why they should be made illegal...
And don't let the union bosses hear you say things like that part in bold...0 -
it was a lot better than them being on benefits.
Couldn't last though, the majority of teh jobs would all have just been shipped overseas.
The worst thing though was the fact that the unions would decide what they would allow to be printed in the papers. That is not good for anybody.0 -
Couldn't last though, the majority of teh jobs would all have just been shipped overseas.
The worst thing though was the fact that the unions would decide what they would allow to be printed in the papers. That is not good for anybody.
no far better to let the capitalists (murdoch) decide, eh?
the problem with limiting the natural power of labour but not limiting the natural power of capital is you end up with power concentrated in very few hands with little to balance or check that power. better to allow the two to thrash it out in a constant power struggle in order to create a dynamic of constant competition rather than a winners / losers awards ceremony.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
No.
You start saving as soon as you start your working life.
It's much easier to save, whilst still living with your parents.Well yes that's how it's supposed to work, I was lucky enough to have parents who didn't mind me carrying on living with them whilst I started out in my working life, but some people don't get this chance so that's were the cheaper housing option enables them to save a deposit for a place of their own.
Parents who don't mind their children living with them when they leave school and start their working life?????
What ever sort of parents would find it an imposition?
Surely, it's the natural order of life, for your children to continue living in your/their home, until such time as they decide to marry/buy a house etc.
The thought never entered my head to tell my children, that as soon as they started to earn a living, they had to leave our/their home.0 -
no far better to let the capitalists (murdoch) decide, eh?
the problem with limiting the natural power of labour but not limiting the natural power of capital is you end up with power concentrated in very few hands with little to balance or check that power. better to allow the two to thrash it out in a constant power struggle in order to create a dynamic of constant competition rather than a winners / losers awards ceremony.
Surely with the example of Murdoch, it is the customers who decide the winners and losers. He has very little power beyond persuasion and knowing what the market wants. We could all end subscriptions witin months if we wanted.
If he owned all the food or water, that would be a different matter, but surely films and football are not that important.0 -
Surely with the example of Murdoch, it is the customers who decide the winners and losers. He has very little power beyond persuasion and knowing what the market wants. We could all end subscriptions witin months if we wanted.
If he owned all the food or water, that would be a different matter, but surely films and football are not that important.
don't think it's as simple as that.
however the same consumer pressures would face labour force. if no one buys the paper it would go bust = no job. it's in as much interest for workers for a company to stay profitable as it is for capitalists.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
don't think it's as simple as that.
however the same consumer pressures would face labour force. if no one buys the paper it would go bust = no job. it's in as much interest for workers for a company to stay profitable as it is for capitalists.
The print unions in the 70s never cared about profitability, guess they paid the price in the end. Too much power anywhere causes problems if it is held by idiots.0 -
The print unions in the 70s never cared about profitability, guess they paid the price in the end. Too much power anywhere causes problems if it is held by idiots.
too much power anywhere causes problems no matter who holds it.
the best situation is a well matched power struggle.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
Thinking about it, but when the power is in the hands of the consumer (the market) it is probably a pretty good form of democracy.0
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