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I love you Guys...your so funny!

Surviving. Someone who has a place to live and food to eat. The alternative is what? Ponce off the state while living in a cardboard box?
I do what I have to to survive in this capitalist society - although your goddess famously said there was no such thing as society. What I don't do is convince myself that there is no better way or that I am in any way part of the ruling elite who hold all the cards and have done for centuries.



That is one definition and it's not the only one. I prefer this one
Capitalism is a mode of socio-economic organization in which a class of entrepeneurs and entrepeneurial institutions provide the capital with which businesses produce goods and services and employ workers. In return the capitalist extracts profits from the goods created. Capitalism is frequently seen as the embodiment of the market economy, and hence may result in the optimum distribution of scarce resources, with a resulting improvement for all; this optimism is countered by pointing to the opportunity for exploitation inherent in the system.

You should read more.




If I am a capitalist, then I'm a reluctant one. I do what I have to in a society which is not of my making nor to my liking.
That doesn't mean I can't try to change it, but I'm certainly not going to cut off my nose just to spite my face.

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Wrong. Maximising of profit is the core mantra of capitalism.

If it's cheaper to produce something elsewhere and ship it here, than to make it here, that is what capitalists do.
If employing immigrants on pi$$ poor wages is cheaper than paying the going rate for the job, that is also what capitalists do.
It doesn't make the cost to the buyer any less, it just boosts the profit margin for the seller.
Goods become cheaper when the buyer has competition and has to lower prices to maintain sales.
The consumer will generally pay the cheapest price on offer. They really don't have an option if it's something they need or want badly enough.

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Maybe if we had fewer Shirkers and Malingerers in Britain to feed and keep In Diamond white cider then we too could become more competitive in the pricing of our products.


face up to it Gus, we are latent Capitalists at heart.

Why not if Scotland adopts the Euro as well then that solves any arguments about keeping the pound !

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

That's the Daily Mail talking, and you're swallow it hook line and sinker.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com ... 09394.html

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The pound is ours as much as it's yours. There is no argument.

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Not according to my mrs - apparently my pound is hers.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

And no doubt hers is also hers

Sounds like Scotland and London's financial arrangement.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Trust the Mail Gus...you know it makes sense.

It is the British pound. If you ain't in Britain, it ain't yours!

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Grandad,

Here's the History of Sterling..if anyone can be arsed to read it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1399693/A-history-of-sterling.html

I'd have expected a pedant like you to know, there is no country called Britain. It's a geographic island, the northern part of which we will continue to inhabit.

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You already have your own bank notes so just call them the Scottish pound. Lets face it they are not legal tender in England anyway. They are not legal tender even in Scotland. Why, when you want independence, would you still want to be linked to OUR currency? Get that wall built back up and don't leave any gaps. I can live without whisky and haggis.

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Grandad,