@robprogressive Nonsense. It's an average. A millionaire has £1m debt compared to someone who earns minimum wage and has no savings.
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@Rod__Mason Starmer's Labour Party is more right wing than Margaret Thatcher. That's partly why salaries are worth 25% less than a decade ago.right-wing.
@FynnBryan Why give the money to the individual to invest?
Why not just invest the money on behalf of the individual and give them a pension when they retire?
That way it can't be squandered.
@elonmusk@CommunityNotes Nicolaus Copernicus and his supporters would have been "corrected" for his Heliocentric Model of the Solar System.
"the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." — Galileo Galilei
@MAGAMAHACindy Everywhere the [neoliberal capitalist] Chicago School crusade has triumphed, it has created a permanent underclass of between 25 and 60 percent of the population.
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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@sovrnsociety Everywhere the [neoliberal capitalist] Chicago School crusade has triumphed, it has created a permanent underclass of between 25 and 60 percent of the population.
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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@TonyWard867811 The objective was never to "balance the books" but to extract as much money from the economy, as possible. The wealthy have exceeded their expectations, the rest of us are still paying.
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@Jenny_1884 The government does not sell any of these, it's down to the private sector and neoliberalism which aims to maximise profits.
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@laurenlself During the global financial crash of 2008, we had 2 people who were willing to pay our price. The banks said no.
Our house was not worth what people were willing to pay for it.
@NoContextHumans But lots of Americans got rich. Read:
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire
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The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
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@Jenny_1884 "Anything We Can Do, We Can Afford"
John Maynard Keynes, in a 1942 BBC address
Taxes do not pay for government spending.
Read: The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
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