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I call it one in four enjoying the leisure that an industrialised world should be providing after so many years of tech advance and increased productivity. Not quite like that of course - they tend to be not too well off. Should be a much higher ratio - they used to talk about 3 day weeks for...

To take money from where it is not needed to where it is.

twas ever thus. Cheap goods through increased productivity or imports means less pressure on wages but fewer jobs. This has been the main bone of contention throughout the industrial revolution and before. answer is stricter imposed minimum wages Responsibility lies with those who have the...

Causes are many and various but in so far as a problem could be rectified by more money then looking to the rich is simple logic. Higher taxation! Imaging Musk's mega wealth distributed where it could do most good - it wouldn't be in space travel or electronic communications - it'd be in poverty...

TBH I think it is a very healthy process and these things need to be discussed. It helps get oneself better informed for a start, which is what I appreciate most. The common notion that we should not talk about "*** politics and religion" is seriously antidemocratic, not least when the...

The blind or stupid might not have noticed that we now have much less influence on any European initiatives in whatever direction they choose to go, including how this might relate to the UK itself. Also we now have much less influence globally, as an independent small state outside of a...

Sounds like a lucky escape! Trouble with a vertical tank is that the burning area of the sawdust is limited to the small cross section of the tank, whereas a shape nearer to the natural shape of a heap of loose stuff (i.e. a pyramid or cone) gives a much bigger surface area, a faster burn...

Maybe materialism, more often just sheer need, particularly for essentials such as housing purchase or rent. It's the exploitation of both materialism and need which puts people into the wealthy sector.

The US was a socialist project from the start, following the French revolution closely and influenced by Thomas Paine and others. The USA constitution is pure socialism, except for turning a blind eye to slavery - Washington and others were slave owners. And turned another blind eye to the...

Not me - he's just another extremely rich **** spending his money like a maniac. Read all about him, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Elon_Musk He's spent billions on organisations which do not have the interests of the 99% at heart.

He has been successful in generating money from stuff nobody needs - a very American thing to do. We would manage perfectly well without any of these things. Just happen to have been browsing "A People's History of the United States" Howard Zinn (chapter 12) and it seems that over production...

Had to look up Project 2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 Very weird. Presumably they can attempt to change the constitution - but then the opposition can oppose in so many ways, not necessarily constitutional. Interesting times!

You could do your own research instead of lazily asking us help - you will only jeer at the answers! Yes I'm sure there are! There's plenty on-line if you really wanted to know. Try "why socialism" as a search term? Einstein wrote a few pages. Or...

Read it. and rejected pretty widely.

It won't go away - Gaza may have lost Harris the election. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/kamal-harris-gaza-democrats-arab-american-voters-donald-trump “Even if he will continue this genocide at a 99% chance,” one voter who cast her ballot for Trump said, “I’m going to...

Actually it was just "a" working definition..etc. and now thoroughly deprecated from all quarters, including the chap who composed it. It was a draft discussion document and not the finished item. There's a clue in the word "working". Sorry to spoil a good story again, with facts and informed...

Extremely ambiguous. It is drum beating in response to the actions of Israel and their repeated rejection of proposed solutions so far. Hamas itself was supported/created by Israel as a divisive alternative to Fatah and others. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/...

Wrong shaped stove! Mine was (have moved since) a Dowling Sumo and roughly pyramidical. These means that even when packed full there is enough air over the top of the pile for air to pass, so it will burn from the top, with no problems. The heap is stable and won't collapse in any way. Stove...

Strewth! More and more like Hitler every day. He reads well. They edited out pauses for breath. Who wrote it? Musk & Co I guess. If that's a taste of things to come things will really get "interesting".

No I meant AJPTaylor above. He was getting a bit overexcited. I listen to your every word selectortone, even if I don't agree with you!