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This could actually be good but instead it just comes across as a coded xenophobic rant. Wasted opportunity!
I knew it was going to be coded from the headline, wasn't sure in which direction. Cheers for saving the click.
In it is literally has emails from Linda on total nonsense corporate cringe stuff that I am shielded from because I wfh.
I live in the East Midlands in the UK. You can grab a reasonable first house here for less than £150k quite easily. So you'll need a 5% deposit, £7,500 for one of those. One person on an average salary for the area would be able to afford a mortgage for a house like this on their own. But Nick has a girlfriend, who can hopefully work, so should be able to afford it easily. But half of people earn less than the mean s…
Start pressing buttons and you'll see even more weird claims that most sane Brits won't recognise. This is a weird website that probably shouldn't be given much time.
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On one hand, I can understand your frustration at demographic & social changes. Everybody would be offended at that, no matter their race/nationality. On another, I think you're channeling your angst towards the wrong direction. Over the past 30-80 years, Western countries collected social security contributions from workers but instead of investing/saving them, spent it all like tax. To fund pensions for that now-ag…
> So, here are your options: [...] 2. Expel every single immigrant 3. Maintain the current model How about another, more nuanced option: let in those immigrants who are willing to work (and, ideally, integrate), and not everybody? And also, crack down on illegal employment. Maybe being an undeclared, underpaid cook in some EU restaurant is better than being bombed in Syria or shot by some random dictator's goons in A…
It's a you problem.
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In the west there are not enough young people to support the elderly, and immigration of young people can help to address this problem to the benefit of everyone.
I see this argument fairly often, but rarely do I see the premises questioned. Why do the elderly need to be supported? Wealth is concentrated in their hands (especially in the UK), while younger generations are struggling to be able to afford housing let alone build wealth. Perhaps society should focus less on supporting the generations who have already accumulated wealth and instead focus on supporting the generati…
Even wealth can’t magically summon the humans necessary to do that kind of work, robots are no solution for the foreseeable future and I don’t think starting a family is easy if you have to take care of your parents and/or grandparents.
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It helps everyone, migrants pay more taxes than they get out of the system in benefits. Plus they often do jobs that many people wouldn't otherwise
Do migrants do jobs that native-born citizens would not under any circumstances do, or do they do jobs that native-born citizens would not do for the low wages that migrants are willing to accept?
This could actually be good but instead it just comes across as a coded xenophobic rant. Wasted opportunity!
Great way of putting it. This looks like ragebait. First 2 things I saw: - the idea that £100k deposit is needed to buy a house - some weird stuff about nationwide initiatives and hypothesised awkward conversations with people who might be Muslims. Maybe I got unlucky?
While I admit that I don't live in the UK, I suspect it's similar to my experience from over the sea in Hamburg. I've recently moved there into a district with >50% migrants for roughly 3 yrs - not really expecting anything as I was still positive about everything.
Finding apartment listings in the online portals explicitly saying they will only allow Muslims was surprising to me, but I ignored it thinking, whatever.
Well, after moving into another apartment in the same area was an eye opener for me.
Really, I'm frankly surprised there are people still in denial how bad it's gotten. Well, not really surprised. I mean I was one of them in 2021.
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I missed that bit. What did it say?
The first three questions I got were: - Wishing a colleague a Eid Mubarak, at which the colleague mentions that she's no longer of the faith. - It's Odd Socks day for Alzheimer awareness. Will you take off a sock? (No -> Linda disapproves.) - Bring your dog to work day, will you bring treats to work? (No -> it got canceled anyway because of complaints.) This just sounds like an exhausting attitude to go through life.
I had to stop, it has some fairly nasty content in it (e.g. making jokes about LGBT people or not, taxes being spent on second generation immigrants).
> Escape from system (fire protection trades)
> Build popular web platform for Korean pop music
> Google redirects all korean queries to indian seo scammers for three years (eg, google "BTS" or "BLACKPINK" and count the indian URLs)
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The first three questions I got were: - Wishing a colleague a Eid Mubarak, at which the colleague mentions that she's no longer of the faith. - It's Odd Socks day for Alzheimer awareness. Will you take off a sock? (No -> Linda disapproves.) - Bring your dog to work day, will you bring treats to work? (No -> it got canceled anyway because of complaints.) This just sounds like an exhausting attitude to go through life.
It is satire about working in a large corporation in the UK.