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  • Zombie@feddit.uktoUK Politics@feddit.uk•More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high
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    2 days ago

    Selling them. Divided by 66m people. Pennies,

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_Kingdom

    I think you’re severely misrepresenting how much value is in the crown jewels.

    The people making them were paid.

    Were they paid a fair value for their labour? Looking at the exploitation of workers throughout history, probably not.

    You also fail to mention that many of these jewels were likely extracted using slave or poverty wage labour.

    But spending on building palaces has always resulted in money going to the rest of society and improving the lives of the rest of the nation

    If instead of building one huge fucking building on one huge estate for one family we spread the land between the people and built multiple homes for multiple people there would be far more money going to the rest of society and many more people’s lives would be improved.

    The monarchy are a parasite and you’re an apologist for that. You seem to think you’re using facts and logic to explain their being but there’s glaring holes in your analysis.

    We’re poor as a people and a nation because we allow and give excuses for the ultra rich to be rich. There’s always going to be people who value wealth and those who don’t but to allow those who value wealth to hoard so much that we as a society struggle to function is moronic and should be abolished. I’m just an Internet nerd who likes to read, not a politician, so I don’t know where the line should be drawn on personal wealth but allowing a handful of people to have more wealth than huge swathes of society is morally and functionally wrong.

    Please look at this website to help try and wrap your head around the sheer vast wealth that is accumulated by the richest in society.

    https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•New coal mining licences will be bannedEnglish
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    7 days ago

    At the very bottom of the page:

    Notes to editors

    Limited exceptions to the ban may be required for safety or restoration purposes. An exemption is also anticipated to protect the historic rights of freeminers to mine personal gales in the Forest of Dean.

    The government has laid a Written Ministerial Statement confirming that it will introduce legislation to restrict the future licensing of new coal mines, by amending the Coal Industry Act 1994, when Parliamentary time allows.

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Wisconsin restaurant apologizes for serving pizzas contaminated with THCEnglish
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    18 days ago

    That’s how anarchy has been portrayed by propaganda media since time immemorial because it scares those in power.

    Anarchy means without hierarchy. That’s it. Rules can still be agreed upon. It just means there isn’t one person, or group of elites, setting and enforcing the rules, but that they’re agreed upon by consensus.

    Just like hierarchical systems, there are many different variations of anarchy. Very few, if any, serious forms call for chaos and everything goes.

    Why? Because it would just lead straight back to Might is Right. “I’m bigger, stronger, more powerful than you, so I’ll make you do as I wish” isn’t a part of anarchist theory.

    Anarchism, despite seeming a simple concept on paper, is a difficult and complicated idea. Not because of the core principles but because humans and human behaviour are weird and hypocritical at times.

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Double Check That ListEnglish
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    26 days ago

    “At least he is more civilised”

    To me, that makes him scarier. He can keep a mask on while stabbing you in the back. Trump, at least, is pretty open with who and what he is.

    Hindenburg and others thought Hitler wasn’t scary at first. They thought they could control him. Look how that turned out. Civilised doesn’t mean moral. It doesn’t mean he’ll do right for the county and people. It just means he knows his airs and graces when they’re needed.

    As Backlog said, there’s no such thing as a good Nazi.

  • Zombie@feddit.uktomemes@lemmy.world•Beep beep
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    1 month ago

    “Only a fool breaks the 2 second rule.”

    I was taught to repeat that phrase, at a normal steady pace, when I saw the back of their car go past something, to use as a marker (a signpost, the end of one of the lines on the road, whatever).

    If you finish the phrase after the front of your car has gone past the same marker, then you don’t have a big enough braking distance and need to ease off a bit.