Comments by "Gilded Chalice" (@GetGwapThisYear) on "Garys Economics" channel.

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  11.  @PersonPersons-kh3bg  I’ve no doubt we agree why people aren’t having kids - wages are criminally low, and asset prices are criminally high, but you are completely clueless on the contributing factors that perpetuate the problem, and what can be done about it. Successive governments have committed to multi-locking pensions, for people who are currently the most entitled generations to have ever lived. State pensions are not something you pay into to benefit from, they are paid by working people. It sounds like you’re suggesting we just forego the state pension system, which obviously isn’t going to happen overnight. Rents are high because that same generation was told that property is the safest investment. It is, because shelter is pretty much a basic human need, but it’s like profiteering on food and water, and immoral in my opinion. Yes, the number of people coming in impacts demand for housing, but low wages aren’t the fault of anyone but the government who allows it. Countries with far greater populations and workplace competition than us have much higher wages and better quality of life. During Covid, huge amounts of money was pumped into the economy which has ultimately pooled at the top. Those people put their money to work by buying assets, which drives up prices and pushes out those at the bottom. You’re looking for someone to blame and have decided to scapegoat migrants because you apparently can’t be bothered to take the thought process to its final and obvious conclusion. It’s lazy and incorrect.
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  13.  @stonboy  much of what we are experiencing is self-inflicted. The country has selected successive governments with no vision or desire to direct money to the right place in order to allow for growing populations. This is likely a political literacy issue, but the impact is far greater than any purported “influx.” The domestic population, if you like, has been reproducing below replacement rate since the 80s, so without migration we’d be in serious trouble. You seem to be falling foul of the same sensationalisation as everyone else. If you looked at the actual numbers and not the falsified ones, then determined the reason we’re so dependent on foreign workers, you’d maybe broaden your scope. Some resistance to integration can occur of course, but it’s not helped by attitudes like yours and others, who have an innate disdain for ‘others’ and treat them as such. The entitlement of white Brits is honestly an incredible trait, that is never borne out in their qualities or abilities, but remains undefeated in its ignorance and audacity. Extending an olive branch between communities makes a huge difference but Brits refuse to learn and accept, despite have no discernible culture or traditions of our own anymore. We’ve become a diluted mini-America, and the boomers and Gen-X wholeheartedly embraced it. It’s easy to keep whinging about immigration and blaming all our problems in the number people coming in, but when it barely keeps up with the rate of those leaving and dying, it just sounds silly. We need more homes, we need more public spending, and we need more wealth equality, or opportunities to increase incomes at least. The people of this country never vote for anyone that actually wants to improve their lives, just whoever wants to worsen the lives of others more than theirs. It’s counterproductive, it’s hateful, and unless we learn from it, our lives will get shittier and shittier until were expire.
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