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Corbynomics: A Dystopia
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If I gave you and all your friends, associates and every member of your family £100 each today but I gave everyone else in the world a million pounds at the same time, would you feel richer or poorer than you did yesterday?
Richer.
You've given me £100times whatever, which is money I have to spend that I didn't have before, and what you've done for others is a transaction between you and them.
How you distribute your money is your choice.
How rich or poor I feel is down to whether I can buy the things I need/want and has nothing to do with you or other people.
Sorry if this wasn't the answer you wanted.
Can I have my £100 now?I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
Yes really.
I notice the picture of a food bank. In our town many of the customers of the food bank are also customers of the Offlicense, tobacconist, bingo and bookies.
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Do you follow them around to check? Obviously you do since you seem so certainFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
If I gave you and all your friends, associates and every member of your family £100 each today but I gave everyone else in the world a million pounds at the same time, would you feel richer or poorer than you did yesterday?
The truth is, it doesn't matter, the key thing is you would be p!ssed off. How 'rich' or 'poor' you feel is in relation to everyone else.
I guess you are speaking for yourself here :
socialists politics of envy0 -
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gadgetmind wrote: »Richer.
You've given me £100times whatever, which is money I have to spend that I didn't have before, and what you've done for others is a transaction between you and them.
How you distribute your money is your choice.
How rich or poor I feel is down to whether I can buy the things I need/want and has nothing to do with you or other people.
Sorry if this wasn't the answer you wanted.
Can I have my £100 now?
Well you're actually wrong because the asset inflation would kill your spending power so you would be poorer ... A little like generation rent with house prices today.Proudly voted remain. A global union of countries is the only way to commit global capital to the rule of law.0 -
In terms of the 7 billion fellow members of the species Homo Sapiens on this planet, if you have access to sewer waste disposal, running clean cold water from a tap and access to refrigerator you are in the top 25% of your species. So I would think people in the UK are off to a pretty good start.....!
We are all the same, 7 billion of us, only we have created for ourselves a world that is now consuming its resources at an alarming rate, and over time invented a fiat currency to cope with a population that blows the concept of community survival and Dunbar's number out the water.Total Credit Used...=........£9,000 / £52,700
Mortgage..............=........£138,000 , 20 Years left.
:starmod:CC cashback for this year..=........£112.88 £205.81 banked in 2015
:starmod:YNAB User & Mortgage Free Wannabe
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Well you're actually wrong because the asset inflation would kill your spending power.
So, come up with a better mind experiment than your previous one, because that one failed to prove your point. Big time.
Or stick to reality.I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
Socialist envy is a minority affliction
Well, a tiny minority of people, but a vast majority of socialists.I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
Do you follow them around to check? Obviously you do since you seem so certain[/QUOT
No but I am not blind. I live and work in the town. It's obvious to anyone that there are some people living on various kinds of benefits who can still afford to smoke, drink, pay for mobile phones etc. yet cry poverty. An inconvenient truth for some no doubt.0
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