Quote:
Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat
The industrial revolution drove the creation of many of the materials we use today but we stopped developing things in favour of reusing what we already had.
|
This shiite began quite a while ago ... late nineteenth century. In any history of the development and improvement in heavy industry, particularly steel production, leading up to the First World War, one can see that Great Britain starts to lag behind Germany and the US. Not only that, investment in education, particularly in the sciences, lagged painfully in Britain. I have no idea what it's like today. The only sector that developed and thrived was the one which dominates your economy today ... I think you know the one I mean. The problem with the banks, for example, is that they have become TBF ... too big to fail ... and they have to be bailed ... even though many of the bankers should have been held without bail. Unfortunately for those workers who are about to lose their jobs, they are too small to save, especially in the eyes of a tory government.