'Mega strike" this week

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Some of us are just a bit odd like that, we don't much like greed.

How many of your spare homes do you rent for charity ?  Landlords will simply invest in other earners should the government force homeowners to finance social housing . Dont we already finance social welfare ? Where does it end ? Universal income lol? Yeah .....nah ...

Why not a Universal Income? We will have to do something if the predicted machine intelligence era comes to pass, some say in less that five years. A UBI has and is being trialled in other countries right now and it might surprise you to know the results seem to indicate very few downsides to putting it in place. It even seems to boost economies without too many other changes.

I know it is hard to put ourselves in other people's shoes, but in my experience that gets a lot easier as we age, and actually get clobbered by a few real life events. So long as we don't fall into the 'why me' victimhood trap that is and start looking for someone else to blame

And the reality is we do not need billionaires. We need doctors and teachers and nurses and plumbers and electricians. Wealth doesn't bring happiness, it actually breaks and destroys. Musk and Trump et al are perfect examples. Money isn't the key to happiness, people are...

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or some of the 500 odd million cost of cancelling the irex ferries

500 million was peanuts compared to the billions needed for the on shore work because labour signed up for the wrong boats

In whose opinion?