It's not capitalism of the Ritz, it's capitalism for the aspiring masses. Thomas Cook, the automobile, the chocolate bar - this era of capitalists felt and believed in improving the lot of mankind. They felt pride in what they brought to market and they knew the difference that the first taste of chocolate, the first holiday, the first car would make in peoples lives. But they also felt that enabling people to live up to this newfound quality of life required paternalism. They felt that society - and particularly the working class - would sink back to the caves left to their own libertarian devices and therefore wished to retain an element of social control.
We're not going to throw her in prison anyway, it was an accident. But wouldn't she rather be known as a spastic instead of a shameless cowardly spastic? Face the music.
If the boss gives it a lot of thought he can make the workforce middle class. The person who can think will do the thinking on behalf of those who cannot. It was the old style capitalism, the paternalistic and national capitalism that was less egalitarian but more altruistic at the same time. People were not equal in theory, but more equal in practice based on the understanding that they're not equal they could work with what was actually there. This created a middle class in America that would survive almost 100 years.
It seems to work for me anyway. I bank on using green and the great recession to limit the number of wasters and lemmings who don't use local tradespeople. Those who always choose the big name no matter the cost to themselves and the earth. These people must be stopped.
We could learn a lot from the aspie Germanic model of doing business, the Aldi model. Practicality and value for money without compromising the product are a marketing point in themselves particularly as our people learn to become more materially resourceful.
I own one car and when customers ask why don't I own a van, I don't just say it's a waste of their money I also say it's bad for the environment to drive a van for what would only be marketing purposes. It's driving around in a big billboard. If they wanted to spend an extra £2000 without any real reason then they'd call British Gas.
Unless the remainer does something very silly and concludes that "tomorrow belongs to me" from the fact that many 14 year olds support remain. Teenagers grow up, and the population is ageing. Kids who grew up listening to the Beatles voted for Thatcher and Reagan by their 30s.
It wouldn't be a complete loss although for sure Remainers would win a second referendum it should be pause for thought. Everything the EU believes in makes the Leave vote stronger and sustaining their ideology is beginning to cost them a lot of money, money they don't have.
Brexit is more of an England thing and won the vote for a reason. Scottish independence was supported solely by the mindless head the ball who would throw away not just stability and economies of scale, but a good deal and a real country. The sense of European identity barely exists even on the continent, British is actually a thing.
Britain is a popular, famous place and without it the European Union lacks personality.
British kudos is the most respected of all the white kudos, the tendency for coloured races to respect and throw money at us because of what our ancestors achieved is something we take with us.
Beautiful but dirt poor. Not being very materialistic myself I need a good reason to work longer than a 3 day working week and her poverty could be a reason to do that. She’ll need to be a beauty if her poverty means I have to do something barbaric like get out of bed before 10am.
Probably not as sad and alone as the men. In general women feel as though somebody loves them more than men do and it's because women are more religious. It's so much harder for a man to be a monk than a woman to be a nun. You're worth something because you exist not because of the value you add to the material world around you. Homosapiens are outgrowing their use and women don't feel the same level of angst about this.
I can't wholly disagree with the point that democracy gets what it deserves. I believe that apathy set in and this was mistaken for tolerance and now finds itself in a situation where it cannot compromise. Diversity and the gap between rich and poor clashing with the very concept of one man/one vote, to compromise a people must be similarish in both standing and personality and compromise is what true democracy rests upon. Through decades of mistaking apathy for tolerance I see the prospect of civil war and one half of the country enforcing its will upon the other. No restraint.
The reason the public and parliament know so little is because the international system runs our affairs automatically and without understanding for over 50 years. Parliament performs the role of figurehead and has all the substance of a figurehead and the public became staunchly apathetic in the default good times of late 20th century. You couldn't lose even if you're a loser and there's a problem there.
Our politicians might come from the elite and best schools, but they were almost never top of the class. Politics is a career which the talentless members of the elite and sub-elite find themselves in.
In stark contrast to the west China has a shortage of pianists, influencers, personal trainers and people to write fashionable blogs.
I would appeal to China’s self-interest. A certain type of talent only properly arises amongst liberality, a Hong Kong kept relatively free and liberal could be a new take on one of China’s development zones. China is good at science and heavy industry and Hong Kong could be like the woman’s touch, one of the main places it buys its dresses from.
South Park, the Simpsons, family guy.. there’s a license in cartoon that prevents American sitcoms from being what they normally are - comedy for people without a sense of humour.
We were just beaten or grounded for not doing chores. For money we had petty jobs and fraud but in my defence they wouldn’t have employed the 10 year old me without those endearing lies.
Therefore if you’re claiming benefits Trump is not a good thing. The better day at work is something you’ll never experience, you’ll just feel poorer in the shops. Landlords are the same. A society where rents go down and prices/wages go up would be very bad for people who don’t work for whatever reason be it landlord or otherwise.
If you’re country is a swampy pity project he’s not a good thing. Ireland is a basketcase upheld by an international sense of sympathy allowed to cheat under our very own nose, but Trump has his own underdogs to worry about.
It’s the before and after that counts. Belief has a different character before civilisation loses its nerve to the one it has post-balls.
And I think the difference is premeditated belief. It’s not the belief itself but why you believe, when you “believe” deliberately in Christianity or political correctness precisely to gel together a decadent and decaying empire there’s no depth to that belief. To believe in this way is a wisdom of the head and not a wisdom of the heart. People will begin to perceive their society as sterile and engineered, the planner’s civilisation becomes increasingly attacked by the red-blooded the further it moves away from its roots.
Nearing the end the Romans even adopted Jesus for who he really was - A radical pacifist hippy one-worlder. They sent out missionaries of universal love in a desperate bid to gel together a decadent and decaying empire. Give unto Caesar.
The Roman cosmopolitan elite adopting Jesus and imposing this from the top-down on the pagan provinces is the equivalent of today’s political correctness. Christianity in the Roman Empire was the universal globalist creed of bankers and foreigner-loving city types. It was their way of pissing on their ancestors.
Two things to remember. All dreams turn to dust and all our blessings become curses.
Just look at the ancient Romans. What began as a hardworking republic became a huge empire crippled by foreign mercenaries and decadence. It became so reliant on its empire that it eventually lost all ability to run its empire. Through empire the Romans became a shadow of their former selves, the Brits became a shadow of their former selves, and the same will happen in the new world.
Historically I appreciate America but now I think we are reaching a limit on selling your soul for GDP. I see our society demanding rights as citizens, as neighbours, as patriots and as workers not only as a consumer. The whole no mates and low prices setup in America, send me your huddled masses of cheap and easy labour? No thanks. The west is moving against this extreme liberalist take on everything born in America.
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It's not capitalism of the Ritz, it's capitalism for the aspiring masses. Thomas Cook, the automobile, the chocolate bar - this era of capitalists felt and believed in improving the lot of mankind. They felt pride in what they brought to market and they knew the difference that the first taste of chocolate, the first holiday, the first car would make in peoples lives. But they also felt that enabling people to live up to this newfound quality of life required paternalism. They felt that society - and particularly the working class - would sink back to the caves left to their own libertarian devices and therefore wished to retain an element of social control.