Toughest squeeze on living standards since 1920

joe_blotts

RenovationMan wrote: »

People walking to work, kids walking to school, kids playing safely in the streets, low obesity levels, people knowing their neighbours, a greater sense of community, high streets consisting of more than betting offices and spray tanning joints.

Doesn't sound too bad.

Too me neither. looking forward to the day when tons of cheap plastic cr"p stop landing on these shores from China and people start making things again, amongst other things.

RenovationMan

joe_blotts wrote: »

Too me neither. looking forward to the day when tons of cheap plastic cr"p stop landing on these shores from China and people start making things again, amongst other things.

Making things we 'need' instead of 'want'.

Saying that, and in light of the move back to the 1920's I'm considering buying these for the house I'm renovating:

[IMG]http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/single white.jpg[/IMG]

http://www.bromleighs.com/acatalog/Bakelite_Light_Oak.html#a1B2_2eLO

shortchanged_2

RenovationMan wrote: »

Making things we 'need' instead of 'want'.

Would that be something like we don't 'need' high house prices but there are some that do 'want' them.

RenovationMan

shortchanged wrote: »

Would that be something like we don't 'need' high house prices but there are some that do 'want' them.

Who would 'want' high house prices?

shortchanged_2

RenovationMan wrote: »

Who would 'want' high house prices?

You tell me.

RenovationMan

shortchanged wrote: »

You tell me.

Do you really want to go down this route, even though you know it will end with you flouncing off the forum in defeat?

Don't make me link to that thread?

joe_blotts

RenovationMan wrote: »

Who would 'want' high house prices?

Apparently higher house prices are 'good news' but when was the last time someone said "Good news' the price of food or TVs/ fridges etc has just gone up? (Cept unless your the CEO of a food or white goods company)

shortchanged_2

RenovationMan wrote: »

Do you really want to go down this route, even though you know it will end with you flouncing off the forum in defeat?

Don't make me link to that thread?

No please, not the flouncing thread.

RenovationMan

shortchanged wrote: »

No please, not the flouncing thread.

Might be best if you just admit you were wrong and then we can put your flounce behind us.

sabretoothtigger

unless your the CEO of a food or white goods company)

Thats not how it works though. Ultimately private companies end up wanting to supply goods as cheaply as possible. The reason being you can sell far more that way and the way to make big profits on anything is to sell millions of them.

What matters more is margins and the more made the cheaper they can manufacture usually. Amazing to some perhaps but capitalism aint the cause of high prices.
House prices rise because government has a political bias to this scenario as its related to debt which they create so much of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale