2. I can just remember pre Thatcher, power cuts massive inflation and a fear that the country was close to collapse. She was hated, after each election she won. You could never find anyone who had voted for her! She was a significant factor in ending the Soviet Union.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
I’m sure she was. She was also a significant factor in permanently weakening trade unions, sending homelessness rates on the rise, and prolonging the Troubles on false pretenses.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
1. The trade unions had stopped serving their members and became political tools to remove governments. Homelessness was barely a problem under Thatcher, but if you import 8million plus people and don't build homes for them housing will be a problem.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
I’m all for union reform, but a bad union is better than no union. Collective bargaining is necessary for workers. And like all developed countries, the UK has far more open housing than it does homeless people. It just restricts access for the sake of profit.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
If the NUM - UK miners union - had not several times tried to overthrow governments it's members would still have an industry. You can't pay people anything close to the economic benefit they provide to a company. The first recession/accident will bankrupt the company.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
“You can't pay people anything close to the economic benefit they provide to a company. ” Why not? How is anything less not considered theft? “The first recession/accident will bankrupt the company.” How?
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
In short, if their is no direct financial benefit to me as a business owner, why would I employ anyone? If I wanted to work in the charity sector, why am I running a small business? Also, running a business is risky. How many great businesses died because of the financial crisis?
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
You shouldn’t. The operation of a business should not be the responsibility of some owner. And charities are not businesses. (At least in theory) Speaking of which, you know what systems caused the financial crisis, right?
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
It seems you are staying that workers should have the right to have their labour valued but the same doesn't apply to those who create their own business? Isn't their a contradiction here?
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
No, because creating a business is contingent far more on already having capital than on performing labor. Business owners should be rewarded for their labor, but not for their preexisting ownership.
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So why open a business if you get no benefits from it? Would you work an 80 hour week as a business owner and get less for that Labour than your employees? This is was starvation is the most common outcome if communist societies.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
If you performed work, you WOULD get benefits. Businesses don’t need to be “owned.” If you worked 80 hours a week (which you should never do btw), you would make much more than employees who don’t. And no famine has ever resulted from entrepreneurial apathy.
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