The right approach would probably be to protest for rent controls rather than restrict a small local business which improves the area for all.
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The right approach would probably be to protest for rent controls rather than restrict a small local business which improves the area for all.
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Rents only ever go up. I can't condone vandalism and rioting because they don't want to pay higher rent but are not prepared to move.
It's ridiculous really. More fool the people who actually go there to buy the cereal at £3 a pop.
Same response to your example B@, rather than the Bristol community boycotting Tesco and using the local independent businesses, which would eventually mean Tesco running at a loss in that shop and having to close down and move. They decided to take a different approach and vandalise it - which knowing what the area is like and the type of people who live round there I can't say i'm surprised.
Trashing an over-expensive cereal cafe, you may as well move on and vandalise a Ferrari garage. Either way nothing is helping your cause.
Same response to your example B@, rather than the Bristol community boycotting Tesco and using the local independent businesses, which would eventually mean Tesco running at a loss in that shop and having to close down and move. They decided to take a different approach and vandalise it - which knowing what the area is like and the type of people who live round there I can't say i'm surprised.
Trashing an over-expensive cereal cafe, you may as well move on and vandalise a Ferrari garage. Either way nothing is helping your cause.
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Why trash the place? Just vote with your wallet and don't go there...
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But the wealthier people moving into the area will still go there... that's the point. The people trashing the place never went there.
In other words "I can't afford it and I don't want it, so no-one else should have the choice"
I hate people like that.
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It's more like "I can't afford it, and my rent has been going up faster than my wages because the people who can afford it are an increasing proportion of the local population and I'm angry that the government are doing nothing to help me so therefore I'll take out my frustration on this ridiculous example of free market economics".
Of course not all of those involved are those directly affected, but that's something else entirely.
Seems fair. If it was everyday UK cereal then no.
But eating imported cereal is not going to be a daily activity.
It's more like "I can't afford it, and my rent has been going up faster than my wages because the people who can afford it are an increasing proportion of the local population and I'm angry that the government are doing nothing to help me".
So? My living costs have gone up faster than my wages. I don't smash up a shop when they put the prices up. I agree that housing costs and rent are obscene and need to be controlled. But this is a selfish act by selfish and entitled people. Their time and effort could be channelled into fixing the problem rather than smashing up a legitimate small business.
Fixing the problem? How.
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So how will you feel when your living costs increase to the point that you have to move from the area you've lived all your life, where your friends and family are, just because wealthier people think it's a nice area all of a sudden? Maybe you'll be peeved enough then to smash up a bloody cereal shop?
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Set up their own political party with a single issue manifesto.
Ahahaha...
It's more like "I can't afford it, and my rent has been going up faster than my wages because the people who can afford it are an increasing proportion of the local population and I'm angry that the government are doing nothing to help me so therefore I'll take out my frustration on this ridiculous example of free market economics because I'm too stupid to think of another way and using violence to ruin someone else's business that they've put all their own hard work and money in to seems fair to me even though they've done nothing to me and are only trying to make a living".
Of course not all of those involved are those directly affected, but that's something else entirely.
There you go
Foxton's in Brixton has been targeted in the past. Doesn't quite capture the imagination like a cereal cafe though, does it?
You know what I do when my cost of living goes up? I adapt. I either earn more money, live cheaper, or move house. These people are just bitter losers, probably on crap jobs, moaning about something they're too lazy to fix themselves.
What they *should've* done is simply open up a different cereal shop near by and undercut the hell out of these £3 a bowl folks. Naturally, being the losers they are, they simply took the easiest route.
It's Shoreditch though, that place is just weird in all manner of ways.
What they *should've* done is simply open up a different cereal shop near by and undercut the hell out of these £3 a bowl folks. Naturally, being the losers they are, they simply took the easiest route.
It's Shoreditch though, that place is just weird in all manner of ways.