Historically...

>Income inequality is not a major problem.
>Poverty is.

Of course it is, the equality of income becides what the value of money is within a county.

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Income inequality is the number one indicator of whether a country is politically unstable, much more so than absolute poverty.

It is the correct term to describe this cretinous creature. Its predecessor isn't much to be revered either...

The real question is, was frugalism or proto agriculture the start of class, class division and therefore poverty?
I mean one could argue the Romans definitely didn't help with the invasion of Britain and their use of enslaving a lot of Celtic people.

I mean it could actually stem more so from the days of imperialism which then trickles down to a societal level the middle class and even the working class have some sort of skewed manifest destiny that they are entitled to more simply because they did what they were told to at the right place and the right time. Britain's biggest problem right now is a problem of class, and I mean that must come from our use of a monarchy, it certainly wouldn't be helping, would it?

Though the queen lacks sovereignty anymore in regards to politics, we cannot forget that figure heads all throughout history have been extremely patriotic towards our past, mostly with the likes of our monarchs, the industrial revolution and like I said before our imperialism/ colonialism. These are extremely bourgeoisie enterprises in which Britain has been founded upon.

I like to think of Britan as some sort of snaky highschool friend like Regina George from mean girls.

I said I mean too many times in that post. kms

So TL;DR

BRITANS A FUCKING SNAKE WHOS ONLY OUT FOR THEIR OWN BACK.

Modern context: Career politics makes fucking the people over whilst getting insanely rich through hiding tax off shore and remaining incredibly corrupt within the houses of parliament themselves.

(I hear they have a small coke problem in Parlament also...)

Italy and the US are worse.

The two are interrelated

Government chewing up over 50 percent of the national income

Was this graph made on a potato? No relevant information to go along with the results of the graph. Like for example, there is no time frame to the graph in question, that alone is a dead giveaway at the lack of validity within said graph. Citation needed.

Because it's imbedded in a site with that info in text.

Just Google "OECD by GINI)

Data is from the OECD.

The UK isn't politically unstable

And please, dont meme about brexit

Oh sorry for being a country which only cares about itself

Why the FUCK should my government give a shit about any other country? I would gladly watch the rest of the Earth burn in hell if it resulted in even a marginal benefit for Great Britain.

Though if you include a list of all countries:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
Seems there are still some things the US isn't #1 at, but we're working on it.

Still beat those pansy Brits, anyway you slice it though. (Though I think we even have more gays per capita.)

as a "fellow Britfag" just shut your mouth...you lack any substance to your argument which is about the inequality of wealth in our country...and as someone whose been homeless twice through no fault of my own and also knows what it's like to go hungry, within the country I was born in, I ask you again...shut the fuck up or come back to me when you have a better argument.

damn the anonymity of this thread sure backfired on you didn't it?

thanks

We've been getting hung parliament's left and right dude, and one of the few supposed advantages of FPTP is that it prevents hung parliaments.

Hyperbole isn't a fucking argument. Now go on and let the adults talk.

What the fuck is wrong with you

>damn the anonymity of this thread sure backfired on you didn't it?
Not OP, not even necessarily disagreeing with you, but gb2 leddit m8

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>the mentality of the eternal *nglo

>trickle down economics
Modern inequality is brought on by rent-seeking, which does not produce real economic growth.

>ignoring the blatant fact that a Nordic poorfag is low middle class in yankeeland

even if this assumption were true, the rich having less wealth is a good thing because they would have less influence in politics

t. Scotty Angus MacDougal

It's because the British people have two distinct breeds living there

One is descended from the Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Viking conquerors. The other from local Celts.
The former is more innately gifted and the latter is quite dim witted.

>average p/e is 20 to 30
>capital markets spread the costs into real estate
>have to wait about 20 to 30 years to start taking out more money than you put in
>95% is invested in the building to keep it competitive
heh, a lot of work for a "rent seeker", put down Das Kapital and pick up Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor
Greece, Italy and Spain's government spending is about half their GDP so why aren't they nordic utopias yet, obviously there are more factors at play
law of diminishing returns, there is only so much money you can throw at propaganda and campaign contributions

N-n-n-n-nanny state. Ill take my freedom, thanks.

Textbook example of a strawman.

Literally nothing you said has anything to do with whether inequality is caused by rent-seeking or not (or whether making money is "a lot of work", not that I would expect you to know what work is.)
If anything, the fact that you need to wait decades before you've made back your investment helps explain growing inequality.

>obviously there are more factors at play
wow! you mean the ratio of government spending to GDP isn't the sole factor that decides the economic success of a country? next thing you're going to tell me the amount they spend per capita matters, or even what they spend it on

>law of diminishing returns, there is only so much money you can throw at propaganda and campaign contributions
Completely wrong. It's a zero-sum game of chicken. That's why you end up with super PACs

Can a Brit please explain to an American why lobs hate her so much?

>wealth magically disappears when its taken away from rich people

>income equality

>Greece, Italy and Spain's government spending is about half their GDP so why aren't they nordic utopias yet, obviously there are more factors at play

That factor is Germoney

>He thinks the USA has more freedom than Europe

the labour voters and socialists spent the entire 70s on strike and protesting for more welfare and boo hooo.

UK's old heavy industry and mining was already collapsing. The strikes just made it worse. UK entered into the european common market, because of neo liberal free trade memes.

All Thatcher did was put them out of their misery.

Japan has some of the lowest income inequality in the Western World. Yes, Japan is Western, sort of.

Their executives are known for cutting their pay and living austerely when the company isn't doing well. In order to keep people employed and show solidarity with the workers.

they also have a lot of inefficiencies. since they want to keep employment up. when I lived there in 2006-2012. their government offices still did all the paper work by type writer and carbon paper.

There's nothing wrong with British genes but I believe there is hybrid vigour from a British-Continental mix.

No one who is objective would think that people in isolated Welsh valleys or deepest Cornwall are as mentally capable as people from Hampshire or Kent.

Most Irish emigration to the USA was from Western Ireland, the most isolated from Norman-Viking-English geneflow (and before that, possibly more isolated from the Iberians who brought Celtic culture to Ireland). It's no coincidence that Irish Americans are one of the lowest achieving white ethnic groups in the USA due to their relatively low verbal IQ.