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> The GP is speaking about the UK - wasn't it always a very socially stratified society? It got way worse during the Thatcher years and especially following th
by mschuster91 2y ago
> The GP is speaking about the UK - wasn't it always a very socially stratified society?
It got way worse during the Thatcher years and especially following them, with the formerly mighty heavy industry all but collapsing, and the Brexiteers made heavy bank on that. The aftershock of first Covid and then Ukraine with the gas price and general inflation was yet another heavy blow.
- inglor_cz 2y agoI live in a Czech city where the formerly mighty heavy industry collapsed spectacularly, after decades of being propped up by the previous regime for ideological reasons. Knifings are still pretty rare here. I have met and lived with plenty of poor people and mere material precariousness won't remake one into a callous psychopath who behaves like a violent predator. Drugs will, though. Frying the brain, as they say.