Re: the EU & the UK
Originally Posted by
Noivous
It's the same thing here, Hollow. The puplic system here is a disgrace. It starts in kindergarten and goes right through college. The lucky ones get to come and work with me after college. That's when I start to open their eyes to the real world and life. I can actually see it in their faces when it starts to sink in...the truth that is.
N.
This rankles with me as its fully anecdotal and smacks of 'my way or the highway' view on life.
I believe in a social politics, I believe in the government ensuring that there is enough social policy that people dont slip through holes and end up destitute. i understand that our economies are capitalist however I dont think that means you can't create policies that introduce fairness or treating customers fairly.
I'm not a Marxist and school didn't inform my politics, to be honest it was when i was a christian that my politics was informed by the sermon on the mount and the idea that the meek and peacemakers are blessed and I extrapolated a world view.
My eyes are already open and I can see the good and the harm that goes on in the world and I personally want to have an impact on it.
Capitalists have been trying to sell me trickle down economics for years to justify the vast riches that some people have but trickle down just doesn't work/happen. Wealth inequality is a huge problem and is especially a problem for the current generation who with slow wage growth and little disposable income are finding in the Uk its very very hard to get a deposit to gether for a house for example.
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