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Originally Posted by papa smurf
Some of the boomer generation had to be the servants so don't beat yourself up
if you have nothing to pass on to the next generation it's not the end of the world .
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If you have nothing to contribute, best say nothing. You are embarrassing yourself ...
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Originally Posted by Pierre
The free market economy is somewhat older than that, much older, try a few hundred years.
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The free market I am referring to is the neocon deregulated variant started during the Thatcher/Reagan era. Peter Hitchens, a renowned conservative commentator, describes it as:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...d-Britain.html
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I am so sorry now that I fell for the great Thatcher-Reagan promise. I can’t deny that I did. I believed all that stuff about privatisation and free trade and the unrestrained market. I think I may even have been taken in by the prophecies of a great share-owning democracy.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
No it hasn’t every generation ( and i’m talking over the several hundreds of years) has largely enjoyed a better standard of living and had more possessions than the one previous..
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You are just describing the basic trend. The issue is not that wealth creation has increased, the issue is how it is disproportionately distributed.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Such actions by a state always work well..
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You lack imagination
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Originally Posted by Pierre
The system is far from perfect but more preferable than the alternatives..
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See above
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Originally Posted by Pierre
What about those that have worked hard? there are people that came from quite humble beginnings and have worked hard and now enjoy a very good standard of living, and you just dismiss them as lucky. They can’t all be lucky and i’m Afraid in this statement you do come across as envious. Unfortunately in life there will always be people doing better than you, that’s just life, bleating about it doesn’t help you.
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Yet again a simplistic, one size fits all response. Of course people can and have "worked hard". The people today who did not have the advantages I speak of also work hard. And?
You fall back on the lazy entitlement narrative where people who have had advantages, of various sorts, have "worked hard" and those that don't, and will never have them, just have to suck it up.