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The UK, for example, has seemingly-permanent crisis-level problems with housing, healthcare, and transport as it is. The country seems incapable of building inf
by bluescrn 3y ago
The UK, for example, has seemingly-permanent crisis-level problems with housing, healthcare, and transport as it is. The country seems incapable of building infrastructure.
Migration is a big political issue not just because of bigotry, but because population is growing and infrastructure capacity isn't close to keeping up.
Also because it can be seen as being used by government as a tool to drive wages down.
- whoknowsidont 3y agoAren't all of those political problems caused by lack of civic engagement and general understanding of the population putting politicians into power? It's not a real problem so much as an artificial one.
- bluescrn 3y agoWe have a two-party system, and neither have real plans to solve these problems, beyond maybe raising taxes/reprioritising spending a bit to slow the decline of the NHS. The increasingly ridiculous cost of housing is at the core of the UKs problems, but nobody in power even wants to solve that, as so many wealthy people, politicians included, are making so much money out of property. And solving the transport problem is deeply 'uncool' for environmental reasons. Roads are obviously seen as bad, but even attempts to build railways will be heavily protested. Meanwhile they won't even decriminalise electric scooters.