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Never was Hugh……all based on pull up the ladder….I’m alright Jack!

Hugh
Shanghai has more dollar millionaires than anywhere else on this planet. Yet even the Communist Chinese are prepared to admit there is no alternative. Funny old world!

I think the Chinese have adopted the “if you can’t beat them, join them brigade” Mick. Capitalism prior to Reganomics and Thatcherism wasn’t too bad. Sure the rich got rich, but the working man/woman was at least afforded a night out after a hard weeks work and a holiday once a year.

Globalisation of Capitalism, i.e exploiting low wage labour in Third World countries to increase company profits at the expense of Western jobs has led us to what can only be described as breaking point, with the cost of supporting redundant workers falling on the state.

Add to this the quasi-Capitaliism caused by the financial lunacy of boom and bust, with tax payers bailing out the failures of private enterprises and it’s no wonder that the Chinese are profiting at our expense.

If Western business, and particularly American business, weren’t so fecking greedy a lot of people would still have jobs and the burden on the state would be acceptable.

At the end of the day it all adds up to greed being not quite so good as Thatcher and Regan would have us believe.

Hugh some of what you say is true but remember we live in the age of globalisation. I remember going to,the Soviet Union in the 80s & 90s & the people there were a lot worse off than we are. Now the tables have turned some what & these countries are getting richer & stronger & we complain about cheap labour. We can do that for the next 20 years & wait til the good times come again or we can change & become compeditive. We need to change the whole culture of the country. Everything must change from top to bottom. I dont know how to do it but someone with leadership is going to have to. What you must realise is there are 7 billion people on the planet. People have less value than ever. We must adapt to this or you can be sure of more hardship to come.

@Mjhint, Everything I said is true, as is everything you have said.

The problem with Capitalism is not that it generates wealth, it generates wealth in abundance, it is the distribution of that wealth that causes the problems we are experiencing today.

Until we have strong political leadership and government starts to distance itself from the Capitalist hierarchy corruption and greed will ensure that the rich will keep getting rich and the poor will continue to struggle.

The gap between rich and poor has never been wider than it is today. This is a direct result of political weakness, ineptitude and corruption. Not corporate greed.