Poor, poor strikers go shopping

[doodab]

Absolute crap. A phone and a PC is all you need, or a voice and a good pair of shoes. Bill Bottriel started S3 - Tooting comp boy with not a penny to his name is now worth £100 million. You will find many of the richest entrepreneurs came from very poor backgrounds.

So do you not think that if we make it easier for people from poor backgrounds to become entrepreneurs or inventors surely that is going to reap dividends?

Bill Bottriel went to LSE. It seems likely he received a grant. He now funds a scholarship there.

What Bill Bottriell has contributed to my life is phenomenal. He has supported me in the one way which no-one else could have. Receiving the Bottriell scholarship has meant that I haven't had to work 20 hours a week to get-by, its meant that I can engross myself in study, and its meant that I can actually have a life!

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[BlasterBates]

Check out Steve Jobs life history and you might find out how to spell his name. Both of his parents went to university and his father had a decent job in high tech manufacturing and enough space for a workshop at home. That's hardly a background of poverty.

You seem to imply that his father funded his company, which is complete nonsense:

Check out his link:
Steve Jobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Although he dropped out after only one semester,[20] he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.

Is that a life of privilege....hardly!

...and what was the role of his Father:

When his son was five or six, Paul Jobs sectioned a piece of his workbench and gave it to Jobs, saying "'Steve, this is your workbench now.' And he gave me some of his smaller tools and showed me how to use a hammer and saw and how to build things

and what was his Father....a CEO of a large corporation?

During World War II, Paul Jobs joined the Coast Guard and "ferried troops around the world for General Patton. I think he was always getting into trouble and getting busted down to Private,"[1] Jobs said. A machinist by trade, his father worked hard and was "a genius with his hands."

[doodab]

You seem to imply that his father funded his company, which is complete nonsense.

Er, how exactly? I simply pointed out that with two university educated parents and a house big enough to house a workshop you are in fact relatively well off.

[northernladuk]

Absolute crap. A phone and a PC is all you need, or a voice and a good pair of shoes. Bill Bottriel started S3 - Tooting comp boy with not a penny to his name is now worth £100 million. You will find many of the richest entrepreneurs came from very poor backgrounds.

Man I haven't seen anyone argue so much about something they clearly don't understand. You should more than most of us placing contractors in public and private sector.

You are constantly comparing public sector with private sector. You cannot do this. Full stop. They are different animals and have very different culture, motivation and payscales, something you should know from placing contractor in them. Contractors that have worked in them will know.

They cannot just swap jobs. They want to teach, they want to care for people. The only way they can do this is work in the public sector who then screw them over with pitiful wages and conditions. Everyone knows this. They join the job for life waiting for the pension, which is then screwed over.

Your short sightedness in your comparisons between the two is starting to make your arguments look worse and worse with each post.

You tell them to go get another job.. How much would you moan then? The only people wiping your ar*e in hospital and teaching your kids would be the dregs of society that couldn't get a job in a private establishment that most of us cannot afford.

You need to wake up and smell a dose of reality and understand the differences before comparing them to private sector.

[MarillionFan]

You tell them to go get another job.. How much would you moan then? The only people wiping your ar*e in hospital and teaching your kids would be the dregs of society that couldn't get a job in a private establishment that most of us cannot afford.

You need to wake up and smell a dose of reality and understand the differences before comparing them to private sector.

Outsource the workshy gutbuckets.

Teachers are on the whole undereducated anyway. How the feck you can be allowed to teach without a degree heaven forbid! And if Mrs uneducated Gutbucket wants £10 per hour to wipe your arse and a massive pension for it maybe she should have thought about that at school. Alternatively bring in Bob to do it for a fiver and at least they can talk to you about their degree while doing it.

[BlasterBates]

Er, how exactly? I simply pointed out that with two university educated parents and a house big enough to house a workshop you are in fact relatively well off.

I think most families in the UK live in a house where they have enough space for a work bench, and can afford a hammer and saw, and no his parents weren't University educated, he was adopted.

[MarillionFan]

I think most families in the UK live in a house where they have enough space for a work bench, and can afford a hammer and saw, and no his parents weren't University educated, he was adopted.

Luxury.

[doodab]

Ok. I have revised my position. We should make everybody poor because that is how you make everybody rich.

Thanks blaster & DA for showing me the error of my ways.

Now, who shall we make poor first? The rich people or the poor people?

[BlasterBates]

workbench for £5

[MarillionFan]

Ok. I have revised my position. We should make everybody poor because that is how you make everybody rich.

Thanks blaster & DA for showing me the error of my ways.

Now, who shall we make poor first? The rich people or the poor people?

Communist.