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Something quite sinister about the global financial crisis
Were you among them? Sorry I could not resist.....
No, narrowly missed a first as it happens. I think people study Maths and Physics and think it would be a piece of piss to program a computer properly. All they end up being good at is writing ickle scripts, not systems.
Drop out isn't failure. Lots couldn't simply deal with it intellectually, despite having the necessary A levels.
Exactly. I remember some people just being baffled in a lecture and just saying 'that's it I've had enough!' and walk out never to be seen or heard from again!
Each until his or our own.
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain
It's quite ironic to see this thread on a board for contractors, where even the lowest paid amongst us is likely to be earning £200 a day for at least 130 days of the year.
It's already been mentioned, but I don't think the median poster here can be accused, by the majority of society, of being anything other than rich.
It's quite ironic to see this thread on a board for contractors, where even the lowest paid amongst us is likely to be earning £200 a day for at least 130 days of the year.
It's already been mentioned, but I don't think the median poster here can be accused, by the majority of society, of being anything other than rich.
Actually I tend to define rich as someone who doesn't need to work.
By all means we are well off (with what we earn we can live a comfortable life) and some of us are even wealthy (have enough resources we could live off them for the rest of our life). However there is a world of difference between us being able to afford to go to expensive restaurants a few times a month and the truly rich who could buy the restaurant out of pocket change.
We are a long way away from earning £12K and struggling to pay the rent but we are still not the ones receiving the wealth the workers are being milked for.
This is the trick governments & socialists manage they convince people the ones with more money than the poorest are rich and should be punished by taxation while the super rich rob the poor blind.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
The solution will not be pretty no matter the direction we look, it's either a sharp painful correction (we've not had it yet) or a long drawn out correction lasting decades.
It hardly needs someone with the intellect of Einstein to work out what the problem is does it?
Just for you here is a brief explanation of what the problem is::
We are bust
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone
Actually I tend to define rich as someone who doesn't need to work.
By all means we are well off (with what we earn we can live a comfortable life) and some of us are even wealthy (have enough resources we could live off them for the rest of our life). However there is a world of difference between us being able to afford to go to expensive restaurants a few times a month and the truly rich who could buy the restaurant out of pocket change.
We are a long way away from earning £12K and struggling to pay the rent but we are still not the ones receiving the wealth the workers are being milked for.
This is the trick governments & socialists manage they convince people the ones with more money than the poorest are rich and should be punished by taxation while the super rich rob the poor blind.
I think not having to work is a good definition of who's rich and who isn't. It's one I use as I'm sure many others do - surely you've passed a contract at one time or another because you wanted an extra month on the bench. Not having to work continoulsly for the entire year and still being stable financially is a good barometer. Look at it the other way - what's the average retirement age for an employee in the UK, mid/late 60s? What's the average retirment age for a contractor? I'm guessing it's much, much lower.
Of course there is a difference between the rich and super rich, but the way some people have posted you'd think they're living just above the bread line.
Edit - I've lost my tangent a little bit with this post - essentially I mean the media labelling 99% of the population as poor and 1% as rich is laughable.
Naom Chomsky has some interesting ideas on the nature of wealth flows, and reasons for the impoverishment of the middle-classes.
Although he has a more global perspective, and US-centric, but his ideas may chime here in the UK about the growing chasm between rich and poor, global organisations and governments, etc.
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