This could actually be good but instead it just comes across as a coded xenophobic rant. Wasted opportunity!
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Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK
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#52The festival part is wrong - you can earn £1,000 from self employment without paying tax on it
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#53How can Nick's rent be £4,500? You can rent a nice, 2 bedroom flat with two showers+toilets, 13 mins' walk from a London Underground station in zone 3, for less than £2,000. Even if they don't want to share with another couple, Nick and his girlfriend should each be paying less than £1,000, no?
I'm confident whoever created this has never stepped foot in London, or if they did, it was briefly.
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#54Where is 100k for a house deposit coming from?! Don't most people start with a way smaller deposit? Like 5% is common these days. Yes you'll pay an enormous amount of interest. You pay rent to the owning class one way or another.
Probably to demonstrate that to ever actually be financially secure you should be paying off a significant part of your mortgage and not wage slave until retirement to only own 80% of the property due to inflation and rising costs.
If you're buying into the 5% you're probably so fiscally irresponsible that nothing good will come off it. The new builds aren't all magically appreciating in value by 20% every year. And if they did the better house you'd want to move into has almost certainly gone up by 30% or more.
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No. Honestly when you have police arresting pensioners for peaceful protest and a govt which is breaking every election promise and triggering 2 calls to hear for a new election (within 12 months of coming into power). Not too mention the population changes that have happened over the last 20 or so years. Knife crime and acid attacks on the rise, social cohesion at an all time low and a standing populace who are stru…
The UK has been (and currently still is) creating havoc across the world.
Sorry - I am a bit less sensitive for Nick's "troubles".
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Overblown dog whistles about "celebrate hijab day" or some such made-up nonsense I only hear about in conservative self victimisation fantasies.
I volunteered at a school. Rather than celebrating Christmas or Halloween, they had to celebrate Diwali because Christmas/Halloween might be too offensive or not inclusive enough. The country has gone mad.
1. I don't believe your framing
2. What's wrong with celebrating Diwali?
3. Why should anyone care? Did anyone stop you from celebrating Christmas with your friends and family?
P.s. according to your post history you have based anti capitalist positioning on the pointlessness of most white collar labor, what happened to make you participate on the wrong side in a meaningless culture war that's just a distraction from the reduction in material conditions of the working class?
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#58This could actually be good but instead it just comes across as a coded xenophobic rant. Wasted opportunity!
And it’s actually good. Immigration does not do 30 year olds any favours. It only helps businesses and pensioners.
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
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And it’s actually good. Immigration does not do 30 year olds any favours. It only helps businesses and pensioners.
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.
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#60This could actually be good but instead it just comes across as a coded xenophobic rant. Wasted opportunity!
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.