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Yeah, the reality is that this will always be the case as long as the national minimum wage (rebranded as the living wage) is in no way related to inflation or

Yeah, the reality is that this will always be the case as long as the national minimum wage (rebranded as the living wage) is in no way related to inflation or the GDP of the country. As long as execs and CEOs are free to reap the benefits brought by their staff without paying any of it back this problem will continue to be exasperated. Another contributing factor in the matter is the fact that politicians seem to be immune from the affects of their policies. This gives them very little incentive to actually help people at the bottom of the totem pole as their funding is coming from the very same people whom are essentially exploiting a desperate workforce. Is a shelf stacker in Sainsburys a high skilled job? No. Is it absolutely crucial in order for Sainsburys to have a working business? Yes. The same is true for the cleaner in a bank. If a bank is covered in dirt and stinks people are not going to bank there. Likewise with cleaners of trains and pretty much any other industry. When you pair the fact that governments are funded by the same people whom are also funding a divisive narrative throughout all media outlets you end up with a grim and bleak outlook for society. As someone that has come from below 0 to get a good job and try and get out of the council estate poverty cycle it really strikes a nerve when people act as though we get given handouts for nothing. My mother worked her damn arse off through my childhood and continues to do so now as a 69 year old woman with chronic health issues. She has been left behind and forgotten by society and ill informed people seem to lack any ability to see beyond the outliers in shows like benefits Britain.

DeathArrow 4y ago
> This gives them very little incentive to actually help people at the bottom of the totem pole Err, votes are the biggest incentive for politicians. > Is a shelf stacker in Sainsburys a high skilled job? No. Is it absolutely crucial in order for Sainsburys to have a working business? Yes. Not really, they will soon use robots. > The same is true for the cleaner in a bank. If a bank is covered in dirt and stinks people are not going to bank there. Likewise with cleaners of trains and pretty much any other industry. I think in Japan cleaning is robotized already. > When you pair the fact that governments are funded by the same people whom are also funding a divisive narrative throughout all media outlets you end up with a grim and bleak outlook for society. Governments funded from taxpayers money.
- makingstuffs 4y ago
  Votes matter a lot less in an FPTP voting system, and the point about media division and ownership plays into the fact that people can easily be mislead into voting against their own interests. Not sure if you are aware of the little old B word which was proven to have been based on a campaign of lies. As for your remark about robots replacing shelf stackers and cleaners. I’ll leave that as the ill-informed and provocative comment it is. Regarding government funding, governments spend public tax payer money, yes. Political parties receive their funding from private donors who ultimately end up expecting some kind of payback for their donation/bribe. Which ultimately comes out of the tax payer’s pocket. This creates a cyclic system which is built to extract wealth from the bottom and middle classes in order to feed it back to the society’s richest people.

DeathArrow 4y ago

> This gives them very little incentive to actually help people at the bottom of the totem pole Err, votes are the biggest incentive for politicians. > Is a shelf stacker in Sainsburys a high skilled job? No. Is it absolutely crucial in order for Sainsburys to have a working business? Yes. Not really, they will soon use robots. > The same is true for the cleaner in a bank. If a bank is covered in dirt and stinks people are not going to bank there. Likewise with cleaners of trains and pretty much any other industry. I think in Japan cleaning is robotized already. > When you pair the fact that governments are funded by the same people whom are also funding a divisive narrative throughout all media outlets you end up with a grim and bleak outlook for society. Governments funded from taxpayers money.

makingstuffs 4y ago
Votes matter a lot less in an FPTP voting system, and the point about media division and ownership plays into the fact that people can easily be mislead into voting against their own interests. Not sure if you are aware of the little old B word which was proven to have been based on a campaign of lies. As for your remark about robots replacing shelf stackers and cleaners. I’ll leave that as the ill-informed and provocative comment it is. Regarding government funding, governments spend public tax payer money, yes. Political parties receive their funding from private donors who ultimately end up expecting some kind of payback for their donation/bribe. Which ultimately comes out of the tax payer’s pocket. This creates a cyclic system which is built to extract wealth from the bottom and middle classes in order to feed it back to the society’s richest people.