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Originally Posted by Neil
Sounds a lot like on here - he or she who shouts the loudest thinks they are listened to while the more intelligent/nicer members find another thread.
I don't agree with the gap thing. I don't care if someone has 10 or 100 times more money than I do as long as I can provide for my family.
The gap thing has more to do with jealousy than need.
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At the risk of being accused of shouting while the nice intelligencia wander off to the floral section of this site..
Thats a simplistic statement to make, let me counter with a simplistic question..
Providing for your family...would you care if you did that from a council house in Moss Side feeding them with Tescoburgers or from a detached in Cheshire eating filet mignon? (yeah I know, unfair of me because your statement does not take account of quality of life, after all it's just a typical Daily Mail type argument)
Earlier this week some overpaid IT guy was discovered to be farming his job out to a company in China..he was paid that much that he could actually employ a company to do his work for him and still make enough to live the high life...He was becoming richer for being non-productive and exploiting the poor. He didn't need the money, he wasn't scraping a few quid together to pay his electric bill, he was just widening the gap.
It's not about jealousy, it's about obscenity...a golfer..a bloke who hits a ball with a stick gets £500+
every single hour for wearing a hat and trainers with ticks on them, while a struggling young mum goes home with roughly the same amount every month for a 40 hour week dealing with all the problems raised by looking after 10-12 people in late stage dementia.
Is that a fair distribution of wealth?