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Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by gsliepen »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #16

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…

> But half of people earn less than the mean salary though.

That's incorrect. Half of people earn less than the median salary. Depending on where you live, it could be that a lot more than half earn less than the mean salary.

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by password321 »

komali2 wrote: post #57
password321 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Well of course you don’t believe me, it goes against your narrative. But I’m sure someone living in Taiwan knows better than someone British currently in the UK.

Also that is quite an overreach on basic observations that are generally agreed upon and weren't anti-capitalist.

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by Husieandr »

derelicta wrote: post #66
password321 wrote: post #55

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Most of Africa which mostly hasn't been bombed by the West. Billions of charity investment.

Western politicians and their capitalist economy required colonialism and imperialism. To this day, Westerners can't stay where they are without meddling in the affairs of others, and then they complain about it. But worry not, the economic development of Africa and Asia will soon render Europe and Amerika into very isolated and uninteresting parts of the world.

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Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by Telemakhos »

oulipo wrote: post #58
dkiebd wrote: post #15

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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

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?

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by extraisland »

lucumo wrote: post #60
spangry wrote: post #20

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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.

It is satire about working in a large corporation in the UK.

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by crikeykangaroo »

password321 wrote: post #55
derelicta wrote: post #51

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Most of Africa which mostly hasn't been bombed by the West. Billions of charity investment.

Apparently, they don't teach history properly in Britain as well! No wonder things aren't going so well.

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by phatfish »

It's "viral" marketing for progress-party.uk, if you play to the end there is a link to a Google doc to register your interest.

The veiled racism and bigotry in the "sim" is cheap. The current housing situation may be made worse by migration, but the majority of it is legal so hardly the migrants fault if we are inviting them.

So blame the government (predominantly Conservative over the last 20 years) and all the NIMBYs and hypocrites that stop anything changing in this glorious country.

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by mike-cardwell »

gsliepen wrote: post #71
mike-cardwell wrote: post #16

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…

> But half of people earn less than the mean salary though. That's incorrect. Half of people earn less than the median salary. Depending on where you live, it could be that a lot more than half earn less than the mean salary.

Sorry yes. Brain fart. I meant median

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Post by derelicta »

Husieandr wrote: post #73
derelicta wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Western politicians and their capitalist economy required colonialism and imperialism. To this day, Westerners can't stay where they are without meddling in the affairs of others, and then they complain about it. But worry not, the economic development of Africa and Asia will soon render Europe and Amerika into very isolated and uninteresting parts of the world.

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You tell that to the People's Republic of China, to Burkina Faso and many others. If you accepted your silly little racial capitalism wasn't completely obsolete and morally bankrupt, maybe there would be hope for you island people.
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