Toynbee - Plan C for public sector workers

A._Badger

And why not legalise highway robbery while we are at it? It's only theft because it's illegal, after all.

Is there any stupid idea that champagne Polly won't fall for?

ruggedtoast

Property ownership is theft.

Generali

Poly Toynbee hasn't a clue.

A few years back she insisted that as the Yen, USD, EUR exchange rate had appeared for a couple of weeks to be trending towards JPY100 = EUR1 = USD1 then the exchange rates of the world should be locked at that point forever.

She's an idiot. I never met her socialist predecessors but I've read some of their works and I think it's fair to say they weren't the full shilling.

ruggedtoast

IronWolf wrote: »

Lol, you would have a mass exodus of all the rich from the UK and UK assets. The stock markets and banks would collapse as the rich withdrew their fortunes to reinvest overseas.

Surely there must be a downside as well though?

I honestly dont care if Rupert Ponconby-Farquahr III naffs off to Switzerland so he can benefit from an inept and corrupt system over there.

The banks seem to be incapable of lending money anyway. Let them go too. I dont care; a lot of people are starting to feel that way as they realise that neo-liberalism is a con designed to sustain a tiny minority of elites at the top of a shifting pile of plenty, while the majority fight for scraps at the bottom.

FTBFun

What the hell is "neo-liberalism?"

Is "neolibs" the new "neocons?"

ruggedtoast

FTBFun wrote: »

What the hell is "neo-liberalism?"

Is "neolibs" the new "neocons?"

Neoliberalism is a machine of which you are a tiny pawn, toiling for an end product you will never see.

FTBFun

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Neoliberalism is a machine of which you are a tiny pawn, toiling for an end product you will never see.

That just sounds like life generally...

A._Badger

FTBFun wrote: »

That just sounds like life generally...

And that's the problem. The Left think they can stop the effect of gravity itself simply by saying it's wrong.

IronWolf

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Surely there must be a downside as well though?

I honestly dont care if Rupert Ponconby-Farquahr III naffs off to Switzerland so he can benefit from an inept and corrupt system over there.

The banks seem to be incapable of lending money anyway. Let them go too. I dont care; a lot of people are starting to feel that way as they realise that neo-liberalism is a con designed to sustain a tiny minority of elites at the top of a shifting pile of plenty, while the majority fight for scraps at the bottom.

You seem to have an overly simplistic view of the world. The rich are responsible for a lot of the luxuries that people today take for granted. If it wasn't for the immense wealth of families like the Rothschilds then things like the London Underground would never have been built, because noone could afford to finance it.

The rich own businesses that employ people, put money into our economy, if you pull out all this money standards of living would collapse.

ruggedtoast

FTBFun wrote: »

That just sounds like life generally...

You dont have to be a pawn. You can be a tool! A giant tool sticking itself in the machine and making something better.