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Seems like a way for elites to maintain control. Much like unpaid internships, the paths and positions of power are made unattractive to intelligent and hardwo
by newsclues 4y ago
Seems like a way for elites to maintain control.
Much like unpaid internships, the paths and positions of power are made unattractive to intelligent and hardworking people who lack generational wealth to work for free or far less than market value, especially when cost of living is so high.
- petesergeant 4y agoHave you met many civil servants in the UK? Generational wealth isn’t a term I’d associated with them
- newsclues 4y agoI'm Canadian, but there is a difference between civil servants and the management. I'm guessing that it's the same. Your frontline civil servants aren't the wealthy ones, they are working a job. It's their bosses and directors, who control the budgets, and can decided who get's the juicy private contracts. Isn't the PM from a very wealthy family? That's the sort of thing I am talking about, not the civil servant working at the DMV (or it's equivalent) counter.
- petesergeant 4y agoPM has two parents who are doctors, which is far, far from poor, but not really generational wealth. He did marry into money, though. Neither of the last two came from illustrious backgrounds.
- grumpy_coder 4y agoThis is a heavily massaged story built for a life long politician. (One hole in the story is only giving I think his mothers family background. There was clearly ~500k to buy a pharmacy early after 'penniless' immigration)