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Theres one big one and a herd of little ones.
The twilight of the west is the big one. Labour is too expensive. We cannot get cheap raw materials either domestically or imported, we cannot make world class amounts of goods out of those materials and we cannot force the markets of the world to buy them off us for more than they cost. We are still living on the capital amassed when we could do this. Mainly through the use use of slavery and other from of murderous drudgery. The Bankers are eking this fossilised capital out for us in the form of house price booms and we are totally dependant on them for that and cannot control them.
There are many others. Care of the elderly is one of them. We do not want to look after our own sick and dying parents we want to pay some-one else to do it. We want to raise kids work and have fun; not nurse decrepit old Granny. We sure as hel do not want to pay for some-one elses Granny to be looked after. We will say that they are just skiving, malingering or undeserving in some other way. We are hanging on by the skin of our teeth by importing third world labour to do this for us. Of course we resent having these people here even though we totally depend on them. But we cannot get away from this elephant; in the end we are going to have to look after these old people and its going to use our time and money. So when the baby boomers need some-one to wipe their @rses there is going to be less time, less people available to make stuff to export and less money for the rest.
That my friends is why the generational time bomb is an elephant in the room and its just one part of the heard that adds up to the twilight of the west.
Posted on two forums because I desperately want laods of peoplel to prove that this is all false
The twilight of the west is the big one. Labour is too expensive. We cannot get cheap raw materials either domestically or imported, we cannot make world class amounts of goods out of those materials and we cannot force the markets of the world to buy them off us for more than they cost. We are still living on the capital amassed when we could do this. Mainly through the use use of slavery and other from of murderous drudgery. The Bankers are eking this fossilised capital out for us in the form of house price booms and we are totally dependant on them for that and cannot control them.
There are many others. Care of the elderly is one of them. We do not want to look after our own sick and dying parents we want to pay some-one else to do it. We want to raise kids work and have fun; not nurse decrepit old Granny. We sure as hel do not want to pay for some-one elses Granny to be looked after. We will say that they are just skiving, malingering or undeserving in some other way. We are hanging on by the skin of our teeth by importing third world labour to do this for us. Of course we resent having these people here even though we totally depend on them. But we cannot get away from this elephant; in the end we are going to have to look after these old people and its going to use our time and money. So when the baby boomers need some-one to wipe their @rses there is going to be less time, less people available to make stuff to export and less money for the rest.
That my friends is why the generational time bomb is an elephant in the room and its just one part of the heard that adds up to the twilight of the west.
Posted on two forums because I desperately want laods of peoplel to prove that this is all false
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One day we will all end up like granny
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Nice try you would expect us all to think like that and knuckle down. I just do not believe it. The eldely are always the worst treated section of the population in this country. Howvever they are relatively well well treated now compared with what will happen in the future.
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Utter tosh!
We're the sixth largest exporter in the world. |
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^^^ and yet the balance of trade is still heavily negative
ie UK imports far more than it exports |
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Utter tosh!
We're the sixth largest exporter in the world. I do not see how the first line follows from the second. How much of those exports are financial services? These will shift away along with the centres of financial power. And you see us climbing back up the list. I don't becuse twilight is coming. Hope I am wrong. |
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Sadly you are correct.
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yeah yeah everythings going to sh1t. anyone with half a brain can see this, stop bangin on about it
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Fair enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLtiS6fPUFI |
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melv
there will come a time not too distant when legalised euthanasia will be acceptable. when i look at the changes that have taken place in my lifetime that were considered unthinkable only a short while ago then dealing with the granny problem will be justified on some pretext by a society that cares less and less. |
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yeah all this euthenasia stuff recently is coming out coz its getting harder and harder to look after the elderly. its being sold as 'right to chose to die' and all this but really its about making it easier for people to knock off their elderly relatives that they cant afford to keep going.
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p.s. i dont think its true that society cares less and less, more that society simply cant afford to look after granny
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Should stop discouraging people to smoke. They will pay loads in taxes every packet and die early. simple
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yes smoking is very good for the economy. smokers work until 60 without too much damage to health and then get lung cancer and die. perfect
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Life sucks, and then we die.
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You'll know we've got problems when Tesco start selling Soylent Green.
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I have heard one argument that the ageing population theory is wrong
This argument is that people are dependent at two stages of their life, when they are young and when they are old. So parents have to take care of their children. The theory then runs that if the population is ageing then there will be less dependent youngsters to worry about and this will balance out the extra oldies that need to be taken care of Shakespeare in his Seven Ages of Man speech touches on this cycle of life idea |
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If only.
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