Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "What’s it like waking up to strangers fitting a pre-payment meter in your home? - BBC Newsnight" video.

I'm Australian, but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of friends were pre-law. They used to drag me into hypothetical discussions. I think they did it because I could say things out of left field and then they would then argue then back. So I got a weird introduction to the US Constitution. All these years later I know consider the US Constitution one of the truly brilliant achievements in human history. Its NOT PERFECT and has a major flaw in that with enough money it can be taken advantage of, but at its core its brilliant. It guarantees you have the right to chose what you believe. It guarantees that you have the right to confront your government over a grievance. It guarantees you and your neighbors can decide how you will provide your community with security. It guarantees the government just can't invade your privacy because it feels like it. It guarantees you will be fairly treated by the court system. Yes it doesn't do these things perfectly and there are some real maggots taking advantage of the system, but you at least have these things written in concrete.
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@alanhigh8125 So what the F∪CK are you so scared of you need to sleep with a semi-auto? I get the security system and all that. I can even understand people owning a gun as I own one. But sleeping with it. WTF is that about?
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I'm Australian and we have similar issues with our corporations that have been privatised. I have heard stories from other places. I'm an engineer and started looking into economics and why they do what they do. It came from frustration of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. One of the best people to explain what's wrong with economics is a Brit by the name of Gary Stevenson. He's from a working class background but rose through to become Citibank's top trader in the world. He is one of a group of maverick economists, across the world, now trying to enlighten people to how economists think and operate and why things like this are going on. Because economics has a common curriculum across the developed world the problems are very common no matter where you look. Almost all the text books economic students have are published by Harvard, Yale, Oxford, LSE,... or they are written by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, LSE,... Its one of the huge issues that's resulting in this stuff and why people like Gary are speaking out. He has a channel here on YT called GarysEconomics: https://www.youtube.com/@GarysEconomics
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@left_blank Probably the thumb drive they show plugging in. They probably need to go and put money on it first.
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