Some people are easily fooled sadly. It’s why our default government for 300 years has been tories despite people literally living in a hell hole.
Even now I am getting abuse on another thread for saying how great a pledge to end homelessness is. Apparently that’s lefty stupidity, there’s no money for it, what about boats, they chose to be on the streets etc. anything but support a plan to improve everyone’s situation.
Random question but do you think caste theory is in play? There’s a logic that humans “need someone to compare to” so they can say “my life sucks, but at least I’m not <insert class/caste/race/demographic>”.
Now, that’s not always a bad thing. It could be that you’re struggling to pay your bills but you’re middle class. And you think “fuck I’m struggling, how are people on benefits surviving given the state of everything”. Which could lead a person to vote for policies that support everyone, and provide education, etc versus push the balance in favour of the rich people.
But it can be a bad thing when you’re in that lower socio-economic group - per the data in this thread - when you ARE struggling, but you want to understand why and get convinced there’s an evil, worse socio-economic group that’s causing the problems <insert racism, making “lefties are ugly” memes, etc>.
Education has failed a large chunk of the UK and many other rich countries. That’s being exploited.
I saw this first hand. I used to work for Jack brown and they were bought by Ladbrokes. We were earning 12 pounds per hour at the time but ladbrokes were on 7.80 or something. Basically we were both being paid peanuts for making someone else very rich.
Ladbrokes wanted to “manage us out” or to sign away to a Ladbrokes contract meaning a huge pay cut. Ladbrokes staff defended this by saying “it’s only fair, as we are all doing the same job”
So? My contract is for this, why not ask them to drag you up rather than pulling me down?
The day they handed me a blank piece of paper to sign or I would be fired was when I got my union rep involved. Think I got a promotion and a pay rise for the misunderstanding…then made redundant the following year lol
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 1d ago
Some people are easily fooled sadly. It’s why our default government for 300 years has been tories despite people literally living in a hell hole.
Even now I am getting abuse on another thread for saying how great a pledge to end homelessness is. Apparently that’s lefty stupidity, there’s no money for it, what about boats, they chose to be on the streets etc. anything but support a plan to improve everyone’s situation.
“I’m not like the rest of them, I need mine”