2024-08-02 19:35:16 -
Paul D. Foy -
This is the unregulated working man from the 80s (a builder):
Click here.
2024-08-02 15:59:12 -
Paul D. Foy -
There was a general deregulation of capital in Advanced (Western) economies that occurred in the '80s.
In the UK this is perhaps marked by the government of Margaret Thatcher with such moves as the deregulation of the Stock Market and the abandonment of capital controls (money moving into other economies/currencies).
While this move could have been taken positively by the working man (owning an investment portfolio, freedom on hours of work etc.
) it is difficult not to view the move cynically as benefiters more of the owners (and leaders) of capital than anyone else.
The move can perhaps be viewed similarly as Glasnot in Russia where bemused citizens were handed share certificates of the newly created Companies not knowing what an earth to do with them - only the leaders (and insiders) did.
In this country the owners and leaders of capital simply chose to offshore their production processes to where the labour was cheaper emasculating the British worker.
Like the mill owners in the 50s and 60s in Bradford seeking cheap labour from East Asia for Bradford's mills, they now simply used the cheap labour in Asia itself.
Positive thoughts of giving capital where it was better suited - e.
g.
rubber plantations, where there was more sun, where there were vegetables and fruit that could not be grown here, or where there was access to raw materials that were better extracted there was a lesser concern.
I've witnessed the attitude from leaders myself - the concern is not for the welfare of those abroad or those at home but whether working with them (the Asians) is a threat to capital (their capital).
2024-08-02 10:34:08 -
Paul D. Foy -
Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Controlled Waste Regulations the Council can charge to take away certain unwanted items.
I see this as somewhat unavoidable as an individual cannot be sanctioned to continually use and create more waste at someone else's expense.
Yet one should be careful that unintended consequences are not being created and it is very difficult to see where these start and end.
In making appliances more accessible to many they become cheaper yet less durable thus need replacing and disposing of more often a charge which itself hits the poor.
But are the poor (or the middle income) making their labour so expensive that items can no longer be made durable at acceptable cost.
Or is the money all creamed off by the leaders of the Companies who reward themselves egregiously for little contribution.
Are British values too expensive to bother with any longer?.
2024-08-01 04:05:43 -
Paul D. Foy -
One does not promote your values by militaristic unsolicited incursions into other cultures, or violent aggressions towards others.
That is not wanted and does no good.
Your values are promoted if they are taken up willingly and enthusiastically because others like, want or need them.
Then you have done a good job in promoting them and can feel satisfied and exonerated.
If they are not taken up, it is not a personal failure and in a just culture does not prevent you holding your cultural values yourself.
2024-07-31 18:12:24 -
Paul D. Foy -
The way to enhance 'British' culture and values is to behave so that these are readily enabled and possible, rather than having some tantrum against non 'British' values.
Thus one eats and encourages the serving of a traditional roast (with vegetables), fish and chips, asks for a cup of tea.
One doesn't make ones labour so pricey that the traditional British values are not valued.
British values don't need the fast or convenient (e.
g.
food) values if their is an alternative.
One promotes British values by exporting it, by adapting the values of others (e.
g.
Microsoft say) to enhance them, to add the British value.
One values a traditional build rather than an aesthetically non-pleasing one by making it possible.
By enabling the exclusive rather than making more exclusive and inaccessible.
2024-07-30 03:11:26 -
Paul D. Foy -
It is now possible to delete a comment.
So there is no need to feel shy about creating a comment just because you may later feel differently about it.
Of course it is possible to delete anybody's comment so I would respectfully ask only to delete your own comments.
2024-07-27 13:59:03 -
Paul D. Foy -
People feel that they can behave like they like, chucking money around just to solve their difficulties.
Thus naturally people also think they'll entitled to shop lift, to take what they need without exchange because that is the example.
They feel entitled to wreck buses (I haven't got a real explanation for this one) just because its a symbol of those in control!.
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