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This article is on the BBC. Iniquitous salaries are not ideal but they are not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is wealthy people who own land, do no wo
by branchless 9y ago
This article is on the BBC. Iniquitous salaries are not ideal but they are not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is wealthy people who own land, do no work and demand rent from others for the right to exist.
https://whoownsengland.org/ https://whoownsengland.org/
Paying some people a bit more won't fix the UK. Reporting people to the state for tax evasion isn't the issue. Land is hardly taxed in the UK. We cannot just look at what is legal vs illegal. The state is setup to funnel money to the establishment. We must look beyond this to what is moral and what is immoral. Is it subjective? Sometimes. In Kensington council tax is 1K per anum on a 2MM house which may be empty, paying the owner 100K on a 5% increase in land prices per anum whilst residents burn to death for the sake of a sprinkler system.
Read the Grenfell one if you want to be particularly sickened and to see how the UK really works. The BBC won't touch this.
edit: to the guy below asking about downvotes, here's what happens on HN. Any time you mention landlords they downvote and someone flags the post and then you get, even though I've submitted 4 posts today "you're submitting too fast".
It looks like free speech, but it's not. This happens every single time.
- prodmerc 9y agoI'm assuming you're downvoted because it's not relevant. But I agree with the landownership problem, it has caused a lot of trouble not only in the UK, but in multiple countries and it's never going to stop.
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