Posted on 07/24/2023 10:31:41 AM PDT by anthropocene_x
Jane is a junior doctor working several extra locum shifts to make ends meet. Burnt out after the pandemic, and struggling with her physical and mental health, she would really like to take unpaid leave, but she cannot do so. Last month, her landlord hiked up her rent, then served her with an eviction notice when she said she couldn’t afford it. She now has to move for the fourth time in three years, and is back in a flat-hunting market where rents are higher everywhere.
Trapped in her job, with her accommodation options diminishing and her time permanently constrained by balancing long work hours with the demands of looking for a home. There is no space for socialising or relaxation, only for a fleeting sleep, from which she wakes up to go back to work, to look at places to live that are almost certainly out of her reach.
All that people like Jane and others have the time or energy to register is a set of invisible oppressive economic forces that simply must be weathered because they are facts of nature. The result is a sort of ambient autocracy, where personal choices are increasingly dictated by forces that you had no say in creating and have no means of overthrowing.
Bereft of the support and proximity of family and community, people are deprived of the social safety net that was supposed to replace it, increasingly having to fork out funds for childcare, subsidising boomeranging single children and elderly parents while paying tax, or fretting about their fates in a cutthroat housing market and a scandalously underfunded care system. Anything that disturbs this tenuous balance cannot be contemplated, so the shackles to partners, employers and imperfect domestic arrangements grow ever tighter.
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It’s not “liberal economics”.
It’s pervasive libertarianism.
You are on your own.
Nobody is coming to save you.
The sooner each of us accepts this, the better.
It’s not even that, it’s socialism.
Smaller government
Weaker government
Accept the risk that your “lifestyle” might take a hit.
But, for future generations, undertake the task of strangling Leviathan.
I do support the full economic default of the US system. Cancel all the debts. Let the heavens fall. We cannot keep going on this way. The Founding Fathers were willing to pay the price, but we are paralyzed with the fear that we might not be able to afford a new Jet-ski if the dollar crashes.
“Weaker government”
Just the thing in the face of our ongoing communist revolution! If they still give out the Order of Lenin you deserve it.
I am confused. I’d like the IRS, FBI, DOJ, CIA, etc to be disbanded. I would like a much, much weaker federal government. How would my desire work to help the communist revolution and why would I deserve the Order of Lenin?
Just to be clear (sorry about the snark put on a great FReeper) this government must be replaced, in accordance with our rights and duties in the Declaration of Independence.
But to clean up the enemy forces now strangling our liberties and our safety, a new government must not be weak - it’s going to have to be strong as steel, tough as nails.
This is a mind-bender, coming from the ultra-liberal Guardian.
Liberal economics ignores one basic economic principle….there is no free lunch. Somebody sooner or later has to pay for all the spending. In Biden’s case the chickens have come home to roost
“I am confused. I’d like the IRS, FBI, DOJ, CIA, etc to be disbanded. I would like a much, much weaker federal government. How would my desire work to help the communist revolution and why would I deserve the Order of Lenin?”
I’m just as confused.
The author seems to be blaming capitalism. Britain is not socialist enough, I guess.
Jane is looking to the government to be her father and protector. Jane should grow up to become a strong independent woman.
“We were mislead.”
Well, the stupidest among us were mislead - the rest of us were just betrayed.
Anyone with any common sense knows that printing trillions of $$, backed by nothing, in order to fund a bloated, job-killing regulatory bureaucracy would lead to this.
It ain’t rocket science.
Surprise! Communists lie and stupid, useful idiots believe them.
A weaker government is a good government.
Exactly right. She wants more free stuff. Everyone knows everything is free in a communist system. Everyone will be equal.
All the economies in the West are socialist. The UK and Canada are both more socialist than the US so that's why you are seeing them having problems with cost of living in their countries. But we are on our way there.
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