One law for the rich, anoher law for the poor.
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Labour's budget deficit during the boom was nothing short of reckless. We always should have been running a deficit now because of the economic hard times, but we should be paying for it with the surplus we should have accumulated during the good times.
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Ahhh, so I should have phrased it as "One law for the hard working, another law for the poor."
Would that have justified the disparity?
I am certainly aware of people who work hard . . . just to make ends meet.
There is a whole lot more to moving form poverty to wealth than just hard work, although I have no doubt that your incredibly hard work has resulted in your acquiring riches beyond the dreams of Croesus.
You do. Try it and find out.
So the shelf stacker at Tesco who works hard for 60 hours a week, he gets rich?
he works hard not to be a Tesco shelf stacker
And that's what i'm talking about, simply working yourself to the bone is not going to get you anywhere. If you're not smart enough to rise above a position like that then no.
But if you work hard and have brains, a shalf stacker could be promoted to store manager, i've seen loads go through that process and yes, it's much better money.
The problem with the statement of working hard = getting rich, is flawed in a lot of practices.
Why would the already rich people want competition?
If you invent something that people need, then well kinda sorts itself out really.
But going through the usual means of labour and what not, in a parasitical company like Activision (example), you aren't going anywhere without losing your ideals and integrity.
Why would the already rich people want competition?
If you invent something that people need, then well kinda sorts itself out really.
But going through the usual means of labour and what not, in a parasitical company like Activision (example), you aren't going anywhere without losing your ideals and integrity.
They might rise to the higher echelons of the company. Many people who have made it to the top started on the bottom rung with very little at all.
At the end of the day they only have themselves to blame as they should have studied a wee bit harder, got their GCSEs then got on with some more education and landed a better job.
Because it has the potential to make them richer.
Your example only works if there is a fixed spend on a particular market. In reality, market sizes vary and the rich may decide to promote someone (making them richer) in order to assist them in exploiting a new market opportunity (making the rich, richer).
I want to be so rich that I can buy Labour and put them all in a house with scorza and lolhausen so they can fornicate with them all.
Ah, complete lack of vision and goals. There are plenty of wealthy people who started off with low level jobs.
I bet you'd rather the state pay them to do nothing so they can complain at the Tories causing them to stop working.
Ah, complete lack of vision and goals. There are plenty of wealthy people who started off with low level jobs.
I bet you'd rather the state pay them to do nothing so they can complain at the Tories causing them to stop working.
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While I agree with you that hard work is always rewarded, there is just not enough room at the top. In order to succeed not only it is needed the dedication but also sense of direction.
It's not jealousy when the killers of Ian Thomlinson and Jean Charles de Menezes get away with it for years, cover it up, and then are not punished when they are discovered both having committed the crime and covering it up.
It's not jealousy when a bank steals billions, goes bankrupt, but is deemed too big to fail so is given what seems like a never ending supply of money from the government and no one is punished.
It's not jealousy when Politicians steal hundreds of thousands from the public purse to supplement their income all the while lambasting people who stole one one-hundredth worth of goods.
It's corruption.
If someone takes it to the point where we have our own Norway, I will not be surprised, and it is the reason I am so sympathetic with this current class disaffected populace.