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Class System Being Reintroduced
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 Mapletree  Croydon 20 Jun 19 9.19am |
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Young people are now dependent upon their grandparent’s generosity if they are ever to do well No wander the wealth divide is widening
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| chris123 hove actually 20 Jun 19 9.20am |
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I know my place.
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| Mapletree Croydon 20 Jun 19 9.33am |
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Originally posted by chris123
I know my place. I look up to you
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| chris123 hove actually 20 Jun 19 9.35am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
I look up to you Not in my sketch you don't!
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| Mapletree Croydon 20 Jun 19 9.41am |
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Originally posted by chris123
Not in my sketch you don't! Ok, I look up to him but I look down on you.
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| chris123 hove actually 20 Jun 19 9.42am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Ok, I look up to him but I look down on you. No problem Ron.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 20 Jun 19 9.45am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Young people are now dependent upon their grandparent’s generosity if they are ever to do well No wander the wealth divide is widening A link on that page doesn’t help your point.
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| Mapletree Croydon 20 Jun 19 10.25am |
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Not really. The older generations hold the capital and pass it on as they see fit. It may take longer to own a house but in the end the ability also gets passed on. Meanwhile I would bet the richer oldies contribute to eg education.
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| Stirlingsays 20 Jun 19 10.34am |
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Reintroduced? The only thing that ever changed was the accents. The class system is both a virtue and a vice.
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| Mapletree Croydon 20 Jun 19 11.00am |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Reintroduced? The only thing that ever changed was the accents. The class system is both a virtue and a vice. Well, for a while I believe income gaps started to close. Now they are accelerating apart. So what will happen to those who have less, and indeed less than their forebears?
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| ex hibitionist Hastings 20 Jun 19 11.16am |
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the class system never went away, lords, monarchs, u and non-U, the plebs play footy the toffs play wugger so we have yobs who can't break out of a working class idiom (hello jesse Lingard) and hooray henrys with delusions of grandeur both ignorant in their own way so we have to get foreigners with an educated attitude in to up our game, all us and them, it's why we don't have any industry and trade massively at a deficit apart from financial invisibles, who needs brains when you can be posh, enlightened thinking is only for the elite hence our unstoppable decline to being a third world country. rant over
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| Stirlingsays 20 Jun 19 11.25am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Well, for a while I believe income gaps started to close. Now they are accelerating apart. So what will happen to those who have less, and indeed less than their forebears?
Too much wealth inequality is a problem and is a factor in increasing instability and societal disengagement (but by no means the only one). However, implementing the meritocratic system and regulating it for corruption are at the cornerstone of what has been most successful in western civilisation. I would agree that the financial sector in concert with the political classes has been allowed to play dice with economics and escalate and disfigure fiscal realities....the invention of capital...However that has also brought in huge amounts of tax, even if some corporates manage to avoid it. Society should have its sights fixed on staunchly protecting and improving its meritocratic systems from the direct ideological attacks from fractions of the far left and the indirect attacks from those who are corrupt and greedy on the economic right. Edited by Stirlingsays (20 Jun 2019 11.27am)
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