h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

PS have you joined UKIP yet?

No



Mind you, they plan to massively increase public spending and have the same attitude to the E U as the Scottish Socialists so maybe the question should be, have you?

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What we've seen over recent decades is the pay of the top 1% increasing much faster than for everyone else in the good times, often with the justification that they're somehow the cause of the good times and deserve reward. But in bad times, their pay still increases, while the 99% is static or cut. Rinse and repeat over time and we end up with a situation where the proceeds for any growth go into the pockets of a very few. At what point will the gap be big enough? We're on course to hit 1918 levels of inequality - at what point will this trend be halted? How much is enough? Or will only a return to Victorian values be enough?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16545898

"Inequality has grown sharply over the past 15 years, according to Resolution's analysis: the top 1% of earners have seen their slice of the pie increase from 7% in the mid-1990s to 10% today, while the bottom half have seen their share drop from 19% to 18%."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/10/uk-super-rich-richer-as-majority-squeezed

Surely the rise of the "shareholder" is the reason behind much of this. Nobody can have pay rises until the shareholders have had their cut, and who are the shareholders in most big corporations ?

Too many of us work in an environment that is totally divorced from our ultimate boss, he sends me an e-mail every month, but he lives in a world I will never experience.



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