Unemployment hits a 5 year high, are we even surprised?
I’ve worked with lads coming out of prison, my job was to help integrate them back into society, house, work etc etc.
Most of them didn’t want a job, why? Because they’d worked it out.
Rent covered, council tax covered, benefits stacked, PIP, PIP cars, more money sitting still than grafting 40 hours a week.
Meanwhile the bloke who wakes up at 6am, works all month, pays his rent, pays his tax, pays his insurance, fills the tank, shops for food, he’s counting pennies by week three.
Tell me that’s not broken.
We’ve built a system where doing nothing can pay more than doing something and then we act shocked when productivity collapses.
High taxes, high rent, high bills, low reward.
By the time you’ve paid for the right to exist, what’s left? Nothing.
That feeling in your chest at the end of the month? That’s demoralisation.
If you wanted a population that was easier to manage, would you reward independence? Or would you reward dependency?
Incentives shape behaviour and right now the incentives are upside down by design.
Mbeumo DOUBLED his goal tally out of his npxG (15npG out of 7.5npxG).
The odds of that happening are 1% or 2%.
He was an xG underperformer in all previous seasons.
Utd are buying last season’s 2 biggest npxG/G anomalies - paying peak value money.
He’s also 26 in August.
23rd & 24th of December, the World Cup for people with zero spatial awareness, going to the shop, meandering aimlessly, standing in the middle of an aisle, 3 point turning a trolley x
Just changed my work hours to part time. This summer I was sat at my desk staring out the window at the few sunny days we had. I’m 52 and will be good for fuck all at 67. I’m living now. Fuck the money.
1. @Keir_Starmer I am a Royal Air Force veteran. I served my country honourably for 15 years. I also served both UK and US governments working for US Government agency for 13 years.