Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Will the rich leave the UK?" video.

  1. After being told for decades, There Was No Alternative to giving away our assets, we might just begin to realise There Was Always An Alternative. There was an alternative in 1945, when people after World War II said "We had Enough of lower living standards, poor health, poverty, and lack of opportunity" through the ballot box. And less than a hundred years later, we're facing the same problems, for the very same reasons. We've been told the same lies for nearly 50 years, that our were told in the 20th century. It's taken nearly 50 years of lies and neglect to working peoplepush people to say, yet again, "We want to take back control. We want to do things differently." it isn't going to be easy, because as happened in the interwar years, there were asset wealthy people trying to warp and misdirect our desire for change. Do not give up. They are already planning to use their asset wealth to extract more and to further strengthen their control over your country. If you really want to take back control, you have to tax the passive income of the asset wealth of multimillionaires and billionaires, and redistribute it . Then, and only, then will you have any meaningful sense of control over your own country. It took our ancestors time, blood, sweat, and tears to get what we had in the 20th century. But we did get it. Time to really put the effort into getting that back from those who want to own our assets, and pay us far less than that privilege is worth. And when we get it, we need to keep it this time. And we have to work together to do that, and stop the economic clock going backwards.
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  2. There are ways to release wealth from Perry you own that aren't taxed so efficiently. For instance, look at Thames Water. The owners, or major shareholders, loaded the corporation up with debt repayable to the same shareholders, who directly or indirectly owned the companies that were Thames Water's creditors.
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  3. That's what Gary described as State Capture, and like gunk in the drains blocking the flow of water, it's a perennial problem because extendive asset wealth gives you power and influence. But it doesn't have to be that way. If we don't put the effort to ensure our politicians serve the interests of every citizen, then that's on us. Our ancestors came back after World War II, and used the ballot box to draw a line in the sand. And unfortunately, we can't say "one and done". It's only taken 50 years or so to erode that legacy, of the electorate really taking back control. We didn't realise that that legacy had to be defended. A legacy that fought ignorance and despair, cannot defend itself against a system that relies on leveraging some of the worst traits in human nature. We must protect ourselves against those traits getting out of control in those we reward for exploiting them. Democracy is the only means the people have to tame it, because to govern the country requires our approval to have legitimacy. The cynical say if voting meant anything, they wouldn't let us do it. But I say, if voting meant nothing, why do the plutocrats spend so much time, effort, and money on trying to influence who and what we vote for? Why did certain people try to make it more difficult for certain citizens to vote. For once, Rees-Mogg wasn't lying when he admitted that Voter ID was gerrymandeting. That's why our voting system needs to upgraded and made more effective democratically. We have to move to a system where every vote counts. It's only one defence against those who would manipulate us, but it's an essential one for our democracy to act more effectively. We have to have systems of governing that ensure that our best interests of our communities and country are served. We have to stop being dependent on being lucky. Our democracy needs strengthening, and so do our communities. Neoliberalism isnt just an economic experiment gone badly wrong. It was a social and political one gone awry too. The ideology wanted us to believe that there was no such thing as Society, until those pushing that nonsense wanted it to replace the state's collective support that had been deliberatively withdrawn to provide bug tax cuts to cipirations and their owners, who had 8nturn suppressed wage growth fir decades. They encouraged us to believe that John Donne was wrong when he asserted that No An is an Island, written when the powerful wealthy elite wreaked havoc on their people to entrenched their power. Donne wrote that passage as a survivor of political and economic upheaval in England in the late 16th century that was dressed up as a religious and political struggle, but was the wealthy throwing the little people under the bus yet again, to secure their power. Like a gardener having to keep on weeding the garden, the citizens if this nation have to keep fighting time and time again, against those who would put themselves above the interests of the country and their people. And as austerity and the pandemic showed us, the tendency for the asset wealthy and entitled to throw poor people under the bus never goes away. So we must be able to weed them out. And we must work at it to protect the harvest of our sweat, of our hard work being stolen and hoarded while we suffer. That's the part 9f our history not exactly taught and it should be, because the work can never stop, can it? It's not the 16th century. it's not the 20th century. It's the 21st century. And the work has to continue for the next generation not to slip into poverty again.
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