▲ | gghhzzgghhzz 14 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Everything that provides any service or assistance to normal life has been sold off and rented back to us at enormous cost, often with many of extra financial scalping included in the systems we are forced to rely on. And a percentage of the extracted wealth is used to push political and public narrative to incentivise the selling off more. Local authorities are forced to sell off assets and fire direct employees, then get charged a fortune to provide basic services and child and adult social care. And for contracts and outsourcing, the ownership of the contract itself is the thing that gives value, not providing the actual service. Creating a whole set of perverse incentives. A council should look at a pot hole in a road as a massive opportunity. Here is a chance to provide good quality work for local people and local resources, but the opposite happens. We have a whole layer of service retailers e.g. for electricity and gas and communications, who are not more than a spreadsheet speculating on long term prices, a call centre and a web site. Their entire business model being based on a) not messing up the spreadsheet calculation b) enough people being lazy and not renewing or switching their contract every year. Our financial services industry has massive positive PR, seen as a net good for the country. When in reality it is focused not on basic things like providing banking and direct insurance, but in attracting our best and brightest individuals from around the country and instead of having them put their talents to something productive. Instead reward them for creating and maintaining complex systems to move wealth around, asset strip regions, hide it from tax and create a layer of gambling and financial products on top of these systems. I could go on. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | fads_go 14 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
So you mean that Britian has pioneered the US's Project 2025 plan? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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