Billy Bragg

[Alf W]

why on earth would we pay more for nurses? most of them are thick and lazy and carry no responsibility for what they do. They do not generate wealth.

You may like to explain also why banking is an undesirable way to make wealth? why is it lazy? It can be easily argued that the banking systems of the world are what have enabled so much business to flourish (including and especially IT contractors).

I got this far and realised this thread was likely to be another one full of DAs thoughtless loadsamoney Thatcherite codswallop so decided to read no further.

Bankers don't 'generate wealth' at all. The whole game is about grabbing as much of it from everyone else for yourself as you can using whatever low means you can muster up. Like a giant game of Hungry Hippos.

[gingerjedi]

I got this far and realised this thread was likely to be another one full of DAs thoughtless loadsamoney Thatcherite codswallop so decided to read no further.

Bankers don't 'generate wealth' at all. The whole game is about grabbing as much of it from everyone else for yourself as you can using whatever low means you can muster up. Like a giant game of Hungry Hippos.

Spot on.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I got this far and realised this thread was likely to be another one full of DAs thoughtless loadsamoney Thatcherite codswallop so decided to read no further.

Bankers don't 'generate wealth' at all. The whole game is about grabbing as much of it from everyone else for yourself as you can using whatever low means you can muster up. Like a giant game of Hungry Hippos.

Indeed - they have created a cretinous paper trail and conned the particularly thick with expressions like "wealth creation" and "trickle down" - and most ridiculous of all "free market". In fact it's much more of a totalitarian closed shop than any trade union ever presided over and is a cartel created and perpetuated soley for the purpose of ensuring they get chance to grab as much as possible at all times and sod anyone else - what Ted Heath used to call the "unacceptable face of capitalism" when the pre-Thatcherite Tories still thought that morality was in some way impotant.

[eliquant]

Billy Bragg doesn't give a tulip about you or your family ..... end of.

[BlackenedBiker]

Billy Bragg doesn't give a tulip about you or your family ..... end of.

but...he's my God Father

[Gibbon]

Spot on.

Explain the rise of the Florentine Medici bankers without using the wealth they created as bankers.

The simple fact is that the relaxing of the usury laws enabled people to invest in commerical activities and see a return on and this produced an explosion of wealth which funded the renaissence.

[Sysman]

Explain the rise of the Florentine Medici bankers without using the wealth they created as bankers.

The simple fact is that the relaxing of the usury laws enabled people to invest in commerical activities and see a return on and this produced an explosion of wealth which funded the renaissence.

Spot on.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

So next time you are ill and in hospital I take it you won’t want to be looked after by some “thick and lazy” nurse who does not carry responsibility.

You are an absolute disgrace a merchant banker no doubt.

[Board Game Geek]

Originally Posted by DodgyAgent
why on earth would we pay more for nurses? most of them are thick and lazy and carry no responsibility for what they do. They do not generate wealth.

I beg to differ.

Their responsiblity is to generate Health, which in turn may generate Wealth.

I speak from personal experience, following my MS relapse, and all the care they have provided to me to build up my strength and get me fit again for work.

As a contractor, I've not been generating wealth. They have almost fixed me with specialist treatment, and I shall soon be returning to work to generate wealth.

Besides, most agents are thick and lazy. Which is why they are agents. Parasites don't generate wealth. They live off others.

I know who I'd sooner help.

[EternalOptimist]

I beg to differ.

Their responsiblity is to generate Health, which in turn may generate Wealth.

I speak from personal experience, following my MS relapse, and all the care they have provided to me to build up my strength and get me fit again for work.

Well good on ya. But my missus has worked in ICU, transitional care and community ventilation. As far as she is concerned, you would be the exception.
She has a team that provides 24 hour care for a kid in a wheelchair. Two nurses, ten carers, a social worker (guardian) plus all the support. The child will never get out of that chair, (the only fun he gets from life is biting and spitting greenies at the missus, or ramming her shins with his chariot).
Lord knows how much it all costs.
The only wealth being created there, is for the wife and that social worker.