Re: Sweeney's Tears Are Sweet

On 19/03/2024 08:34, kyonshi wrote:

On 3/19/2024 9:24 AM, JAB wrote:

On 18/03/2024 15:24, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Modern definition of capitalism... privately rake in the winnings, send the losses to the public...
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Externalize the expenses to the public.  Like the expense of not making all the water in a hundred miles toxic.

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 yeah, that all sounds very familiar. Nobody seems to have a problem that companies get free money and everyone else pays for it.
 

Part of the problem in the UK is that a large part of are media, particularly in print, is staffed by what we call client journalists. They masquerade as newspapers but are really propaganda machines for the government and certain business interests. They're quite happy to distort, and sometimes just outright lie, and also just not report news that's unfavourable to their agenda.
A simple example is trumpeting how Brexit was a success as trade had gone up. The story was spun by using the absolute monetary value, instead of looking at trade volume which had decreased, and also taking the baseline as when COVID restrictions had really kicked in.