the central government giving a generation of young people a logical reason to operate unbanked is about the most shoot-yourself-in-the-foot move i've heard this year. like even saying it's a possibility down the road is wildly stupid.
it's like step 0 in "how to grow the informal economy astronomically"
Maybe that's why they want to start counting the informal economy towards GDP
I'm sure they want to. every country wants to get a taste in taxes, but it is unrecorded, invisible, and generally impenetrable by virtue of it's function.
people spend 5 years attempting to estimate the informal economic activity of a single sector in a single community and it's just a number on a page. it's like "estimating" how many people in Canada had how many embarrassing, secret dreams about unicorns last year.
Especially in a country that is basically a pirate haven for finance criminals
- bleak and gray
- no one having kids
- creating anticitizens
Britain is turning into a real life City 17
Stalin built parks and provided free healthcare, and when providing cheap and efficient public transport made a point of also making it beautiful.
Britain is Thatcherist.
its definitely stalinist i was there when Sunak said "I love Stalin".
Sunak is going to eat everyone's bank account with a big spoon how is that not Stalinist??
I forgot what website I was on for a second and had a stroke reading this
"Welcome. Welcome to Slough. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of Slough that I elected to establish my Administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by Our Benefactors. I have been proud to call Slough my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to Slough. It's safer here."
I'll serve this country... on a platter to its enemies!! Gottem!!!
In bad country you take a big hit to your social credit score for not signing up to fight in imperialist wars.
It's a funny cycle. Neolibs do things that hurt young people, so young people don't vote for them, so neolibs do things to hurt young people, and the cycle continues forever
Hes never had to think about that before lol all he had to do was wait for the lettuce to rot
conservative party never gave a second fuck about that lmao they get like 95% of their votes from 35+
Something happened in the Anglosphere that made baby boomers somehow despise their successors. Moreso than the usual grumbling, but not particularly antagonistic contradictions between young and old throughout history.
I know in Italy there’s a bit more cohesion between young and old, and in Japan there’s a celebration when young people come of age and start taking on responsibilities. Both are imperialist, capitalist nations but at least are semi-normal about that.
It started with millennials being the media’s favorite whipping boys, and then it just doubled down with gen Z as the respective governments practically conspired to make everyone’s 20s be as horrible and boring as humanly possible.
I mean I think even the GenXers were hated by the boomers for being "slackers"
They honestly just fucking hate everyone don't they
Grew up being beaten into little work machines by a generation of fucked up ww2 vets, and now that newer generations are allowed to be people they're making their (justified, but not our fault) jealousy everyone else's problem
Grew up being beaten into little work machines by a generation of fucked up ww2 vets
kind of the exact opposite, boomers were raised in front of the TV at the peak of empire with the (later met) expectation that they would have a job that could pay for a house and family
they will never forgive us for that
It's the intersection of peak material wealth and minimum emotional wealth. An incredible formula for boomer brain. Boomer children were on the forefront of multi-room and multi-bedroom homes being available to nearly everyone, and their parents were like oh cool I never ever have to see my kids
I hate to be a crude materialist about this, but it's really the lead poisoning......that stuff was everywhere, an entire generation mass poisoned by one of the most insidious neurotoxins known to humankind, and the older they get, the more the literal brain damage manifests itself in more destructive and antisocial ways
I knew about lead poisoning growing up, but a few years ago after looking into the new research on lead exposure, I think the scale and true scope of the catastrophe has never been fully accounted for, imagine a scenario where hundreds of millions of people unknowingly imbibed a substance that would render them into borderline sociopaths with poor impulse control? Well that shit happened and it went on for decades
Now we have microplastic poisoning, I wonder how Gen Z will be in 30 years...
As time goes on, I think the capitalist machine just requires more and more sections of the population to "other", to blame for the failing state of the world. Divert attention away to anyone but the richoids.
There has to be a point where people stop being polite to these monsters.
In fairness we have townhall meetings of entire halls of people laughing at the conservative candidates. There is real contempt there. And these are halls filled with 40+ people not youth that hate them even more.
The bank accounts that never have savings because young British adults are paid poverty wages as the norm, and the drivers licenses for cars they can't afford to buy and maintain?
rishi "the contradiction intensifier" sunak strikes another blow at british capitalism
Death to America
My man is so checked out, it’s obvious he just wants to go back to running a hedge fund in Malibu so badly
Oi! Nice loiscense yew got der, would be a shame if anything happened to it.
Jokes on you, mate! I don't even have a license, can't lose what you don't have
FIGHT AND DIE IN UKRAINE
