Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC

photochemsyn wrote: post #197

qzw wrote: post #5

> "The free movement of labour is part of the European Union, and we tried very hard to convince the British not to leave the Union," said Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrat candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor. "They decided differently. I hope they will manage the problems coming from that," Scholz said. Man, I can smell the schadenfreude from all the way over here.

The issue with free movement of labor is that it only works out well across a region with standardized pay rates. Otherwise corporations will import labor from the low-cost zones and fire their high-cost local workers. This causes a lot of anger, see Brexit.

Post by heisenzombie » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

shmatt wrote: post #222

photochemsyn wrote: post #197

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The issue with free movement of labor is that it only works out well across a region with standardized pay rates. Otherwise corporations will import labor from the low-cost zones and fire their high-cost local workers. This causes a lot of anger, see Brexit.

And yet the truck driver openings, now that the low cost workers are gone, have yet to see a significant pay rise to bring in locals that have never considered the job until now And if, lets say, the corporations will now have to pay double for UK citizens to drive the gas delivery trucks. Wouldn't that raise the gas prices quite considerably? The world outside the UK is working pretty well with labor import. Even a…

Post by callamdelaney » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 9:57 PM UTC

joeberon wrote: post #158

wsc981 wrote: post #146

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> I'm sorry that the reality I experience does not line up neatly with the one you want to believe Might it not be fairer to state the sentence either as this: > I'm sorry that the reality I want to believe does not line up neatly with the one you want to believe ... or this ... > I'm sorry that the reality I experience does not line up with the reality you experience All in good faith of the discussion.

I don't think so personally. I see it based on what I know versus what they know. I know about my reality, whereas they want to believe something different about my reality. I'm not saying they want to believe something about their _own_ reality, I'm saying that it is about my own. I had an experience and they are saying "no, you didn't", which is them projecting their belief onto my experience of reality. So I think…

Post by BitwiseFool » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

evgen wrote: post #304

BitwiseFool wrote: post #76

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I definitely sense a smug air of "this is all your fault and you deserve every ounce of pain for leaving. Let that be a lesson to you!"

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Post by gifnamething » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 11:05 PM UTC

mattowen_uk wrote: post #262

stinkytaco wrote: post #203

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I think about myself as a pretty standard middle class person who's obviously empathetic to those who have less. But this proves how easy it is to be out of touch an not even realize it. I really had no idea. I just assumed when you filled, you filled all the way.

Unless your petrol station is on one of your regular routes, it's false economy not to fill up completely when you have an empty tank, otherwise you are incurring an extra trip to the petrol station. Of course if you can't afford a full tank, and are living hand to mouth each month/week, then you are in the poverty trap where everything is a percentage more expensive for you overall.