Ukip! Ukip! Ukip!

[darmstadt]

£5000 a year benefits - recruitment agent
£500,000 a year - permie
£5 million a year - contractor

yes of course value of money (500,000 Turkish Lira vs. 500,000 GBP) is just as important but I was trying to keep my point simple.

FTFY

[lilelvis2000]

wealth is determined by amount of money

A here I am thinking that a person with many friends and respected by his community is rich. Whilst a person with billions whom nobody gives a damn about is poor.

I'll have to rewrite my dictionary of values.

[lilelvis2000]

People become poor or remain poor whenever freedoms are taken away from them. Socialism creates false hope where in reality all it does is keep people poor and consign others into poverty. What it does do however is enrich the powers that administer the socialist environment.

That happens no matter the system.

[SpontaneousOrder]

That happens no matter the system.

Capitalism doesn't require administration, whereas socialism obviously does.

[darmstadt]

Capitalism doesn't require administration, whereas socialism obviously does.

What about Crony Capitalism? Pretty much what most western governments are now

[Zero Liability]

Insofar as it consists in divvying out the pelf and micromanaging the economy where required, to that end, it does.

[SpontaneousOrder]

What about Crony Capitalism? Pretty much what most western governments are now

Yup.