Sarah Connor really is a fantastic columnist for the FT
Shit life syndrome
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
English doctors don't really make banquet money: https://www.bmj.com/careers/article/the-complete-guide-to-nh... I don't see this as a "making fun of people" thing. It feels to me more like an open acknowledgement that there are a large number of negative health impacts associated with poverty, and it really sucks. Maybe there's a cultural thing here. English humor is pretty self-deprecating: the term "Shit Life Synd…
Ah so since they don't make banquet fund raiser money, my point about it being in poor taste and shitty for them to say about their patients is moot. Thanks for providing sources on Dr salaries. They are basically suffering from shit life syndrome themselves!
The rest of my comment was meant to respond to your point.
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> One day maybe TBH, I doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with your values. Heck, I'm even called 'woke' by most people around me. Yet I understand that in this day in age, thanks to cryptocurrency, money is and will be a private matter. No government will be able to confiscate your wealth, at least to the extent that your wealth doesn't depend on assets related with the government (e.g. real estate is relate…
you don't pay tax because the government controls the issuing of money. You pay tax because if you don't some large men will come to your house and make you pay tax. this isn't a knock on the system; without some sort of centralised governments things tend to fall apart and then recreate themselves again. Even in the most lawless places someone steps in to perform the role, and usually they're much worse than a legal…
Also important to keep in mind that, to a good degree at least in liberal democracies, the large men that come to make you pay tax exist because your neighbors think they should exist.
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And this is what neoliberalism does to a brain. Notice that when communists are discussed, the same sayings "communism has killed millions of people". Well, so has capitalism. Probably even more than communism. Except, capitalists always rephrase this to point blame towards the individual. Homeless rising? Should have worked harder! Don't have medical? Should have worked harder! Medical privatized and going to shit?…
I don’t see anything particularly neoliberal about that comment? If anything it’s version of slightly misguided Zen Buddhism. There’s a communist version of every tired refrain you listed (but with more jail time and gulags), so I don’t see how it’s solving anything. Maybe life in general is kinda shit sometimes?
It's bottom of the barrel right wing hogwash. Calling it neo liberalism is good enough, imho
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#105Capitalism-induced shit-life syndrome.
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#106This sounds oddly similar to the systemic dysfunction seen on reservations in the USA.
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#108Brit Boomer. I grew up in a single parent family near the bottom of the heap in England. What kept us going and saved me from early death or a life of crime or drug dependency was the welfare state. The NHS, free school meals and host of other measures meant that there was a safety net in place, even so much was done by charities like the NSPCC. Later there were grants, with tuition fees paid, to go to higher education. For me, seeing how the other 50% or so lived was truly eye opening.
Post Thatcher, the safety nets have been allowed to fall into disrepair if not discarded entirely. Modern Britain is not a place to grow up poor in.
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Because certain lines of work don't require physical presence but are skilled jobs. /added Also, I prefer a rural setting, no doubt others do too. Cost of living is lower also.
Most people really don't prefer a rural setting. People go to these "high GDP" places because there is a greater abundance of opportunities there. Relationships, friends, career, networks, etc. Even if you can work rurally due to remote work, you miss out on a lot by not being where other people are.
True, there are other reasons to live in an urban area.
WFH does provide the opportunity to provide a service without living there, though.
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Of my close friends from uni days, only one lives in london, and that’s by choice (her job was moved from london to somewhere in Surrey well before covid so she was “reverse commuting” several times a week. The others live in a seaside town in devon, a Wiltshire village, a Shropshire village, and one lives in a small Derbyshire town.
London's population is still growing, and faster than the UK population. People want to be in cities, not just because there are more jobs there. Definitely dependent on demographics though. https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22860/london/population https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/pop...
Worth noting that London is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world. Over a third of people there were not born in the UK. There could be many reasons for this including high salary jobs, but other reasons like parking assets in a relatively stable democracy, emigrating to a culture similar to their own, I'm sure the list could go on.
And perhaps because those people are capable/willing to emigrate are possibly more likely to contribute to the economy, there is a net gain for the whole country. Clearly there are reasons why London itself is highly diverse with its international arrivals.
Beyond an economic gain/crutch, does it really benefit members of the same country hundreds of miles away, other than being subsidised by the spoils?