• brewery@feddit.uk
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    8 days ago

    As much as I hate the austerity cuts across the board. I believe this is a good idea as long as the money stays in the UK and has proper procurement rules, which I would trust labour to do better than the Tories, and can’t see Reform or Greens being as good.

    It would lead to growth as a lot of that money would go to wages of UK employees and come back as taxes. Plus we need to be realistic about not relying on the US. We have strong university education and should build back up our engineering sectors.

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      8 days ago

      It would lead to growth as a lot of that money would go to wages of UK employees

      Because that happens all the time

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          7 days ago

          we’re constantly getting bombarded by articles written by the priests of capitalism that tell us the economy is doing fine, while we know everything is getting worse. therefore, the economy has nothing to do with the way ordinary people are doing. the economy is doing well when capitalists are making a lot of money, and paying wages takes money away from them. therefore, wages are bad for the economy.

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            7 days ago

            “The economy” is a nebulous term, like “the environment”. Looking at it from the perspective of workers, a high-wage economy is a good economy. From the perspective of capitalists, a high-growth economy is good. There’s no objective measure of what a good/bad economy is, and if we allow capitalists to dictate the terms of what a “good economy” is then the left will continue to be pushed out of economic discussions, to the detriment of workers.

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                7 days ago

                I’m tired of this defeatist argument. There are plenty of leftist economists. Yes they’re sidelined, but without anyone arguing coherently for a left-wing economic vision, it’s going to stay that way.