As I said earlier, I can afford to ride this out, others such as my daughter will really struggle. Of course, I'll help her out if need be but is that what we're becoming as a country, having to lend a helping hand for the bare essentials?
This is the way its been for a while now.
House prices, its OK because most people who get on the housing ladder in more expensive areas are getting help from their parents or somewhere else. Energy prices? Its OK because we will help the poorest to be able to survive this and just push the burden up the ladder one rung.
This is how the world works now. Unbridled and corrupt capitalism at work. Some have so much that they literally couldn't spend their money fast enough and others are scrabbling in the dirt to survive. Being an advanced civilisation should stop this sort of thing from happening but its just getting worse.
I'm looking forward to the time when all these massive companies can replace vast swathes of their workforce with robots and completely cut out the necessity to pay wages, pensions etc and really funnel all the money to them and their mates. Its funny when you hear people talk about automation giving us a utopian future where everyone is taken care of and robots make our lives easy. That will never happen because somewhere, someone wouldn't be making as much money as they could and they won't stand for that.
As shown in this thread, plenty of people don't give a **** about anyone but themselves and their loved ones and can't look beyond their own circumstances to see that what is happening at the moment isn't good for anyone but the uber rich in the long run.
