If you end up with a girlfriend who can do plumbing you'll find her much more useful than one fits carpet.
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So much for going down the plumbing route
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Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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This is how it seems to me:
Scenario One
Contractor: Fark me, these plumbers are costing me an arm and a leg. Clearly they are just jumped up greedy bastards and the government should do something about it.
Plumber: Hey pal, that's just market forces in operation for you and my cost is set by the market. If you don't like it, well plenty of other people do.
Scenario Two
IT Client: Fark me, these contractors are costing me an arm and a leg. Clearly they are just jumped up greedy bastards and the government should do something about it.
Contractor: Hey pal, that's just market forces in operation for you and my cost is set by the market. If you don't like it, well plenty of other people do.
What's good for the goose and all that.Comment
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Originally posted by GibbonThreaded's post just shores up my opinion that degrees are a waste of time for most people!!!!. Especially in IT. Judging from from some of the people I've come into contact with I think they must have given them away but it doesn't stop alot of them thinking they are uber beings and the rest of humanity is uneducated dross. You guessed it, I haven't a degree and this seems to really upset some permies, good.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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When will you halfwits learn - the price in a free market is determined not by costs or by even by competition necessarily - it is set by what you as a consumer are willing to pay. This is because private companies exist to provide shareholder returns. It is not in their interest to get in a price war when everyone sets high prices and consumers are willing to pay those prices.
That is why privatising the health service is dangerous - how much are you prepared to pay for that life-saving triple heart bypass service ? Everything you have ?
Thanks very much, next please.Comment
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Originally posted by JabberwockyWhen will you halfwits learn - the price in a free market is determined not by costs or by even by competition necessarily - it is set by what you as a consumer are willing to pay. This is because private companies exist to provide shareholder returns. It is not in their interest to get in a price war when everyone sets high prices and consumers are willing to pay those prices.
That is why privatising the health service is dangerous - how much are you prepared to pay for that life-saving triple heart bypass service ? Everything you have ?
Thanks very much, next please.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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When will you halfwits learn - the price in a free market is determined not by costs or by even by competition necessarily - it is set by what you as a consumer are willing to pay.
Whilst I broadly agree with the above I do not concur that the NHS should not be privatised,be that as it may an example which confirms the above would be the rates of the Prostitutes of Amsterdam.
Before the Euro their basic rate was 50 Guilders which is appox 25 Euros, however after the Euro prices then prices rose overnight from 25 Euros to 50 Euros, and the market continued as the punters seemed happy enough to pay this exhorbitant hike.Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 19 January 2006, 10:32.Comment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgentI think you are the one who has a problem/chip with regards to degrees not the permies
Not as much as a problem with agents.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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Originally posted by GibbonNot as much as a problem with agents.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgentYou love us really
I don't have a particular problem with Graduates, only the ones that seem to think because they've got a degree then they are automatically superior to the non-graduate population and that they should be paid more because of it.
IMO only 20-25% of people should be going to uni with correspondingly better quality courses.
At the end of the day most people (apart from agents ;-)) do important and useful jobs. It's the old body parts analogy. The brain looks down on the heart which looks down on the stomach etc until we reach the anus. The rest are knacked if the anus stops working.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgentThere is no point in privatising anything unless the dynamics of competition, responsibility and choice can be applied. Tax should be converted to healthcare vouchers, the number of hospitals should be doubled and leased to private companies, and then set up to compete for patients.Comment
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