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Before you say "Who will buy the goods". Think about 200 or even 100 years ago. Did those sitting on the top worry about that then? No, so long as they were OK they didn't care. So long as a few have enough, they will be fine.
Kim, Putin, Xi Jinping, etc don't care if their people starve or live in poverty. They care about themselves and their friends. Don't think we won't see similar here in the West.
The only thing we have that will stop that is Democracy. The problem is you have to use it. America has lost the will to use it. Trump might be some getting it back, but only a chance. He's not very good but given the choice between him and Clinton. I choose him. I would rather an independent get the job who isn't in the pocket of the billionaires. The next elections will see if he started a change in how the US is ruled.
The EU is anti-democratic. It will hurt Europeans to punish the UK and make sure it scares them from asking for a referendum. If they can. The best solution for Europe and the UK is to have an open trade deal. But that would be the worse for the EU as that would trigger more referendums. Which the EU would lose, then have to ignore or cave in.
40 years ago most people in a medium type job could afford to buy their own home. Today it's only the top 20%. Social care was fine, today it's increasingly under more and more pressure with less and less money coming from the taxpayers.
40 years ago debt was at OK levels. Today it's out of control. We can no longer support ourselves. We live on borrowed money and pay the interests to the 1%. And yet where are the improvements in our lives.
Don't reply with the economy is doing great. What's your economy doing are you living as well as you did 20, 30, o4 40 years ago? Now look into the future and see how that shapes up for you.
Also, don't reply with we can't do anything about it. The power is in the hands of the consumer. What would happen if we bought less from the Third World, it might mean you have less junk, it would mean you give a job to a fellow countryman or keep yours. Because all of us rely on a strong middle class and they are getting smaller and weaker. A billionaire needs one membership, 1,000 need 1,000 memberships.
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