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Originally posted by CretinWatcher View PostYou really make me larf!His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by CretinWatcher View PostSo most companies should move to China or the US, or God forbid, even the EU, since there will be even more above average intelligent people there.
Well that will probably happen and the elite in the Uk will follow, leaving a rump of thickos behind
You assume that there are only just enough "smart" people doing the difficult jobs at the moment.
10 minutes working in any company in the UK ( or indeed Europe ) will tell you that there are a lot of clever people doing jobs that do not tax them to their full abilities. This is not a lack of ambition or drive on their part but simply the way companies are structured.
When I worked in the corporate environment it was full of despondent people going through the motions, going to pointless meetings and generally just time-wasting because frankly they could do the job they were asked to do in 20 hours a week, not the expected 40.
In this forum every so often a contractor will start a thread that goes along the lines of "I am really bored at work. I have so many skills but don't get to apply them." That is not a one-off. That is the daily lives of many people working in modern UK companies.
The UK is full of people who've been educated to a high level yet are unable to find challenging jobs.
If the current incumbents of those roles decided to move to an EU country then I have no doubt that the vacancy they leave would be rapidly filled.
We have this thing called an "Educational System". There is a pipeline of new joiners entering the workforce every year. Some of whom are smart.
There is not a finite pool of smart, high-achievers. New ones are born every day.
Your biggest ( among many ) flaws is that when you perceive a problem or you appear totally unable to imagine a solution.Comment
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that 10-15% will go with them.Comment
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You cretins make me larf, you're so thick.
There's all these posts about how great the people are and how much talent there is blah blah.
That may well be true but how come then we have the lowest productivity, highest current account deficit and one of the highest debts of any western country?
How come we come about 20th on the country rankings for maths and science?
Let's see whether these weaknesses will be exposed in the coming years or whether they miraculously disappear.Comment
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Originally posted by CretinWatcher View PostYou cretins make me larf, you're so thick.
There's all these posts about how great the people are and how much talent there is blah blah.
That may well be true but how come then we have the lowest productivity, highest current account deficit and one of the highest debts of any western country?
How come we come about 20th on the country rankings for maths and science?
Let's see whether these weaknesses will be exposed in the coming years or whether they miraculously disappear.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostHow many of the millions of immigrants are top science and maths geniuses, and how many are down the supermarket cleaning cars or picking fruit?
Anyway we had full employment with all these immigrants, skilled or not, lets see how the unemployment rate pans out over the next 5 years or so.Comment
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Originally posted by CretinWatcher View PostIt's quite simple - a substantial proportion of London immigrants are highly educated, since that is where the money is, the vast majority of immigrants elsewhere aren't.
Anyway we had full employment with all these immigrants, skilled or not, lets see how the unemployment rate pans out over the next 5 years or so.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post"Full employment" with falling wages, implemented by axing millions of well paid full time jobs and replacing them with lots more low paid part time jobs. Unemployment fixed. Well done Osborne.
Anyway if you think the Tories who are going to rule for at least the next 10 years are going to improve the lot of the common worker as opposed to their business chums, you're a deluded fool.Comment
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