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And what if it is white people going to some impoverished place (let's pick Africa) to build houses, do pro bono dental work, or dig for freshwater? Is that an extension of Kipling's White Man's Burden?
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Another lunatic with a death wish. Although as it is in The Grauniad you are not allowed to mention that the natives are complete savages. They prefer an ‘it’s all whiteys fault’ narrative.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...nedict-allen-explorer-racist-british-colonial
And what if it is white people going to some impoverished place (let's pick Africa) to build houses, do pro bono dental work, or dig for freshwater? Is that an extension of Kipling's White Man's Burden?
In this new world all this type of behaviour smacks of colonialism.
Another lunatic with a death wish. Although as it is in The Grauniad you are not allowed to mention that the natives are complete savages. They prefer an ‘it’s all whiteys fault’ narrative.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...nedict-allen-explorer-racist-british-colonial
And what if it is white people going to some impoverished place (let's pick Africa) to build houses, do pro bono dental work, or dig for freshwater? Is that an extension of Kipling's White Man's Burden?
Awful article, had to stop reading before I vomited. The only issue I have with Allen, as no stranger to jungle adventures myself, is so called searching for uncontacted tribes. The issue here is one of disease, if they're truly pristine, they have very little resistance to common ailments in the western world.
Always enjoy seeing the ''pro bono'' moniker on LinkedIn accounts. You know for sure, they're utter gobshites.
More Guardian click bait...
Like the one where Movember was seen to exclusionary towards men who couldn't grow facial hair..I'm surprised it hasn't been banned as being potentially exclusionary towards transmen.
Or the article where talking about gardening was considered racist because they were discussing soil-purity and non-native species......of plants that is. This was seen as 'covertly' encouraging nativism.
Or the article...
This is the new reality folks...anything goes...anything, no matter how fucking stupid as long as it brings traffic to the site and the writer can make a name for themselves. Cos they're now a brand.
If you wanna know where the alt-right gets it methods from, look no further. The alt-right, is a creation of the pseudo-left.
formby, is not, impressed.
That much is true. I have to admit, I am still astounded when I find the broadsheets resorting to cheap sensationalism to channel traffic. Including The Guardian. I should know better by now.
Written by a self-loathing member of the Brit middle class! However, he did work for Frank Field which means he can't be all angst. Another self-loathing member of the upper middle class in the UK is Jeremy Corbyn.
In any dynamic society there will be wealth disparities and this effects housing, education and social mobility of the next generation. But it is not a closed caste system: the last report I read - on the situation in the UK - showed that 21% of those who were born into families of the top earners (i.e. upper middle class) ended up in the lowest.
In the UK the class system was much more pronounced with accent being a key sign, also dress. It was also possible to arrive in a city with no money and through a letter of introduction to be entertained and engaged even if you had no money on the strength of being a gentleman. Whilst wealth came into it, particularly heredity wealth, the norms of behaviour and culture were the most important presentation of the class system.
I'm not sure what he is getting at: rich people to be barred from living well and be forced to live with people in poverty? Forego a good education for their offspring so that their children can wallow in the poverty of the masses?
From what I read, the author is interested in erasing wealth, not the class system, as the class system is as much about norms of behaviour than just wealth.
I think the author is trying to highlight hypocrisy.
This was what I took from it, too.
A wave of Subway store closures
Do people in retail fast food not learn from each other? I remember this happened with Starbucks and other chains where you open so many you start cannibalizing each other and of course you start lowering the quality and business goes down. Week old lettuce! That sounds healthier than a Big Mac!
They offer a choice of bread - but all of them are soft and horrible. The salad is bland at best. I would prefer to go to an independent if I have to get someone to make me a sandwich.
A degree is often a waste of time nowadays. There are graduates aplenty. It keeps the unemployment figures down and the government gets the youngsters to pay handsomely for the privilege themselves.
My generation let jobs get moved overseas, so they could get a payoff to retire early. Now they complain that there is no work for their offspring.
This is a pet peeve of mine (sorry); I remember trying to explain it to OfficePants (unsuccessfully). I don’t know about the UK to be fair, but in the US, globalization (which includes offshoring and simple competition from foreign companies) only accounts for 17-21% of the job loss in manufacturing. The higher numbers (20-21%) typically come from economists arguing that globalization is a major detriment to domestic labor markets. Similar numbers in Germany. The biggest culprit to job loss is increased returns to capital and labor. This isn’t just automation either. For example, if you ran an SME with 300 people, you might need 3 people doing HR stuff and another 10 doing accounting (audits, etc). With new software, you might only need one HR person and two people in accounting. That kind of stuff is really responsible for a lot of the involuntary and structural unemployment plaguing a lot of blue collar industries, particularly those associated with manufacturing. Pink collar (think about how many retail employees were necessary 20 years ago to meet the Christmas demand; look at how few this year thanks to technology) and white collar work will likely be affected in a similar way soon enough.
Still ~20% is A LOT of lives affected, and anyone who says otherwise is an ass. And both offshoring and the increasing returns to capital benefit both consumers and ownership/management at the expense of employees.
I thought his observation was Europeans being displaced by brown people. I'm trying to situate the same parties in my mind in the timeframe of the industrial revolution....
Not at all, I was merely drawing attention to the fact that increased productivity and new technologies do not necessarily mean redundancies. They can make the company more innovative and competitive. One of the problems with the current wave of globalization is that it chases cheap labour, whilst innovation is stifled as there is no incentive to improve processes.
New technologies have not displaced the western working class - globalization with off-shoring has.
One thing that has yet to dawn on millenials and liberals, is the fact that everyone, including all the graduates of the future, will face tough competition to enter the job market as the organisations will have a global pool of talent to pick from. Positive and negative I suppose.
'''The biggest culprit to job loss is increased returns to capital and labor''. Well, that's a Marxist intepretation of it.
Increases in efficiency through automation, new software and improved processes often means you can churn out more and more cost effectively. Particulalry in manufacturing. This often leads to more employment and in the case of automation, more females in the workplace as the need for manual brawn is reduced. But not always,
I'm involved in lot of bespoke manufacturing not only oil & gas, but power generation, marine and mining and without doubt the biggest threat to blue collar jobs is the off-shoring of jobs overseas. These jobs still exist, they haven't been made obsolete, they've been shipped overseas where the cost of land and labour is much cheaper. Not to mention the ease in which you can alleviate environmental and labour laws.
Now we are also seeing the Indianisation of traditionally highly educated engineering degree and above positions being either farmed out to Bangalore, or companies setting up feeder agencies in India who then transfer them to Europe on short term contracts. The current costs for an Indian graduate engineer here is US$200-225 a day, plus a Euros 100 a day living allowance. The European equivalent is at least double that and often quite a bit more.
So I am starting to see a lot of white collar MSc's, PhD's that are metallurgists, well reservoir and process engineers finding themselves being made redundant and struggling to find the equivalent positions. Indeed, I was with one of my clients the other day and he was complaining that the last two positions his wife had were both off-shored to India in short period of time.
Globalization is a significant factor in reducing salaries in the west, whilst places like India have benefitted, but all those middle class white collar workers who think this will only effect manual work need to guess again.
The so called Indian Knowledge export is currently storming the oil & gas industries. Already the Middle East is pretty much dead - other than senior management - for the expat Brit and the likes on a serious good packages.
In the long term, it doesn’t. In the short term, it can. That’s the nature of structural unemployment.I was referring to Inta's point about automation taking jobs. That was the Luddites argument. Economies are not static, they are constantly changing, constantly in flux. Its the [main] reason economists predictions are usually wrong.
Also four unrelated fatal stabbings in different parts of London on one day. I could speculate on the perpetrators based on the areas.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teen-killed-one-four-london-11780554
Check out Guido Fawkes, they're really laying into the idiot son of a Pakistani bus driver. And rightly so!
There is always much effing and blinding on Guido. It is a release valve for posters but at the same time it gives ammunition to those who say it is for ‘swivel eyed’ loons.
He and Karen married in 1994. He was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but Karen said he didn't take his prescription for a Ritalin-like medication because he was worried about it slowing him down as he conquered the business world. Later, he was diagnosed with depression, and explored treatments for other disorders including borderline personality and bipolar, she said.
At the same time, regular binge drinking was part of his life.
"All I know is that there was a mental-health component and there was substance abuse," she said. "I can't determine what came first."
"He supported us. He was a really kind father – really, really kind," John said. "He gave us everything. And later … he kind of became a recluse."
Karen said that up until 2008, George was a heavy drinker. But that was the year it accelerated. Alcohol became an everyday thing, and binge drinking would happen three or four times a week. At times, he combined alcohol and sleeping pills, heightening his family's concern. He would go a whole day without eating, or would pass out at the dinner table, Karen said. Someone in the family would talk to him by phone in the afternoon, and they could tell he was drinking – and a plan was hatched to get him home. The kids didn't ask him to come to their school or sports events. They avoided talking about his work because it made him more stressed.
"The family was all working around it," Karen said. "It was one of those things where the family was trying to hide it … you're on high alert."