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[chess]

I've been finding out lately that a disturbing number of you are conservatives/Tory supporters of some stripe or another. Being somewhat of a flaming red socialist myself, I'm interested in how you guys justify the belief that the rich ought to get richer and the poor ought to fend for themselves that seems to be the Tory standpoint to me...

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[chess]

I am really quite fed up with the 'solution' that people should move to areas where there are more jobs. If they don't have a job, *they can't afford to move*. Especially they can't afford to move to an affluent area because the houses cost too much and the *food* costs too much.

I think there are quite a few people who would enjoy what we dismiss as 'menial' jobs, at least if we gave them a 'circuit' of jobs so they could do different 'menial' things each week, if we didn't look down upon such jobs as a society and give them such a low status. In fact, surely we should treat it like room pricing at college; the jobs everyone wants should be paid less and the jobs people don't want should be paid more. Of course we would have to have a better free education system (properly free with living grants) to do this, because otherwise people wouldn't be able to invest in training as they wouldn't be able to pay it back with their low-paid, satisfying job.

As for the last paragraph - does everybody need a computer? It certainly gives the education of those children who have one an advantage...

[naath.livejournal.com]

Well, if you own a house you can sell it - then you have money for another house, if you rent then presumably you have the money for the rent... and you were citing a case of 'work exists but I won't do it' not 'there is no work'...

Of course we should pay menials more money, however rich CEOs like to remain rich (sucky).

Computers are not required. Nope. Don't need it. Definately like it, want it, desire more... but don't *need* it. It would be good if children had access to computers - but that is what school is for, schools should have better funding to provide better resources for children to learn from.