Comments on: Academics criticise Cameron’s approach to inequality

By: Slawomir Wojcik

Slawomir Wojcik — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:28:22 +0000

Levelling down is painful in societies with competitiveness (which is culturally modified aggression – like it or not) as an exclusive criterion of social promotion. The inter strata barriers grow higher. The degree of anxiety and aggression accompany them. A the thoughtful move from the top to level it down a bit seems to be the best solution – you don’t have to look too far for other solution – deprivation and decline. Most of the middle class understands that it is the lower class pushing with their (considered unsubstantiated although they are not) claims that robs them of their money. Most of our mass media play it exactly this way, exacerbating the problem. I can see the point in reluctance to give money to people who seem not to know better but the roughest ways of using them. You can not throw the money at people from helicopters (…). You can not soak the economy with the money like a sponge – you have to work at pains to built a structure that absorbs the money without destroying own ability to consume (and to produce and in this order – why do so many of you think that we produce to fight to find somebody to consume it than, why are we so far from the primitive notion of : I need an apple; I get a stick; I pick the apple to eat it and to share it! What are the simplest steps you can take? They are very basic indeed: go the the pub across the road you never went to and talk to people (and put an unbranded simple jacket on). The real measure of poverty is how much you can give away without harm? Think for yourself – if you consider yourself not well enough to give away a penny, whatever your wealth, you are a pauper.

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By: Pete Bowers

Pete Bowers — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:18:11 +0000

@ToryatSea http://bit.ly/3E4LE4 It's hardly a brilliant record, I know. But I'm not sure inequality has increased much, if at all.

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By: SSP Campsie

SSP Campsie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:38:57 +0000

Wilkinson and Pickett criticise Cameron's misuse of their findings on inequality: http://short.to/x1tq

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By: andy creamer

andy creamer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:56:45 +0000

RT @ChrispLOL: RT @smithsky1979 @TimMontgomerie @KerryMP IFS calls bollocks on Cameron's definition of "severe poverty: http://bit.ly/3E4LE4

By: Chris Paul

Chris Paul — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:51:26 +0000

RT @smithsky1979 @TimMontgomerie @KerryMP IFS calls bollocks on Cameron's definition of "severe" poverty: http://bit.ly/3E4LE4

By: Sadie Smith

Sadie Smith — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:48:31 +0000

@TimMontgomerie @KerryMP Institute for Fiscal Studies calls bollocks on Cameron's definition of "severe" poverty: http://bit.ly/3E4LE4