You do know the very word "meritocracy" was intended as a negative one by its inventor?
[edit] [Real world attempts at] meritocracy in practice ends up meaning rule by the most privileged.
Best people <> privileged people. You know, meritocracy?
But Boomers earned all of that money. At no time did the government help them. They were the ones who jumped on those low mortgage rates. They were the ones who slaved away at minimum wage jobs for a summer to pay for college. /sAdding onto the boomers ruined everything narrative:
"You’ve probably heard about the “great wealth transfer.” It's the $72 trillion stack of assets that baby boomers are sitting on and going to pass onto millennials someday, thereby solving many of the economically beleaguered younger generation's problems. But there was another, even more “massive” wealth transfer from the government to the baby boomers over the last 40 years, according to Bank of America Research."
The ‘great wealth transfer’ isn’t $72 trillion but $129 trillion, BofA says—and the government gave most of it to baby boomers
Boom! Government policy has really enriched a certain generation of Americans—ones who have been in power for decades.finance.yahoo.com
Adding onto the boomers ruined everything narrative:
"You’ve probably heard about the “great wealth transfer.” It's the $72 trillion stack of assets that baby boomers are sitting on and going to pass onto millennials someday, thereby solving many of the economically beleaguered younger generation's problems. But there was another, even more “massive” wealth transfer from the government to the baby boomers over the last 40 years, according to Bank of America Research."
The ‘great wealth transfer’ isn’t $72 trillion but $129 trillion, BofA says—and the government gave most of it to baby boomers
Boom! Government policy has really enriched a certain generation of Americans—ones who have been in power for decades.finance.yahoo.com
Same as it ever was. And a lot of the pent up money is already earmarked for the nursing home vultures to suck up. Cure Altheimer's!Adding onto the boomers ruined everything narrative:
"You’ve probably heard about the “great wealth transfer.” It's the $72 trillion stack of assets that baby boomers are sitting on and going to pass onto millennials someday, thereby solving many of the economically beleaguered younger generation's problems. But there was another, even more “massive” wealth transfer from the government to the baby boomers over the last 40 years, according to Bank of America Research."
The ‘great wealth transfer’ isn’t $72 trillion but $129 trillion, BofA says—and the government gave most of it to baby boomers
Boom! Government policy has really enriched a certain generation of Americans—ones who have been in power for decades.finance.yahoo.com
Let “the bodies pile high in their thousands”, Boris Johnson supposedly said. Not once but often, the Covid inquiry has heard that he was for killing off elderly people, “obsessed with older people accepting their fate”. According to the invaluable diary of the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, our prime minister was saying “that’s nature’s way of dealing with old people” as he complained “we are destroying the economy for people who will die anyway soon”.
It wasn’t just him. The chief whip, Mark Spencer, allegedly said: “I think we should let the old people get it and protect the others”, to which Johnson replied: “A lot of my backbenchers agree with that, and I must say I agree with them.” So this was not one irritable remark, but a theme aired many times around tables where people didn’t get up and leave the room: many are still in government, presumably including Rishi Sunak, the eat-out-to-help-spread-Covid chancellor at the time.
Johnson’s delinquent Covid policy still has prominent supporters. Jacob Rees-Mogg said on GB News: “Boris Johnson’s instincts on lockdown and Covid policy were broadly right.” The inquiry heard that the cabinet secretary, Mark Sedwill, suggested a herd immunity policy of deliberately spreading Covid, like chickenpox parties for children: that seems to have happened in care homes.
Sunak and Braverman are both Monkeys. I'm a Monkey. I could have told those two idiots that being in office is a terrible job for them. Careerwise, we are more suited to being accountants or something to do with real estate. Oh wait. Maybe they ARE doing that. Counting their money they are making on the side in shady real estate deals while pretending to have all the answers in office!I mean now she's stirring up far right-wing mobs to attack the police. While being in charge of the police!
Sunak and Braverman are both Monkeys. I'm a Monkey. I could have told those two idiots that being in office is a terrible job for them. Careerwise, we are more suited to being accountants or something to do with real estate. Oh wait. Maybe they ARE doing that. Counting their money they are making on the side in shady real estate deals while pretending to have all the answers in office!
Sneaky bastards, these Monkeys!
Yup. You are right. Both born in 1980, year of the Monkey.*Wince*
I'm pretty sure you don't mean it that way, but you should be careful about using that word when referring to two "persons of colour".
Yup. You are right. Both born in 1980, year of the Monkey.
Cruella has been sacked, David Cameron on as foreign secretary....
Dumpster fires are fascinating to watch. Especially if they set it on fire by themselves.Does anyone really care about British politics?
Other than Brits of course.
Does anyone really care about British politics?
Other than Brits of course.
-As an American, it's reassuring to see someone else's political decay and incompetence on display...