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Firms to raise prices due to tax and wage increases
(www.bbc.co.uk)
Firms to raise prices due to capitalist greed
FTFY
Entirely true.
But what is more annoying is how Tories etc are trying to suggest it was not expected.
We live in a capitalistic society. Even the most left wing politician. In no way expects corporations to choose reductions in profit.
The labour may not like it. But they fully expected this to happen. When companies start to increase prices above the % amount, the wages increased. Making employees worse off over all. That is the point things can be said to have failed. Rather than all the crappy biased telegraph and times articles claiming Labour has destroyed the economy.
And if that happens. It is the companies that are to blame for their own choice to price themselves out of the market. Not tax rate or wage levels.
"Firms" here is very non specific. How many of those surveyed are consumer facing?
Time to be self sufficient to be honest..
What do you mean?
Modern society / politics / voters / globalisation has completely failed to protect the workers of the West who are continually squeezed by any number of factors.
The last resort is to attempt to need society less: making ones own food, rejecting consumerism, upcycling/recycling, changing entertainment tastes, consciously rejecting marketing etc
It’s a nice ideal, but I don’t have acres of land to be self sufficient with.
I didn't mean it like it's possible.. I meant it like when society pulls the rug out from under you it doesn't leave you with many other options..
Last estimate I heard was 0.4 acres per person to grow enough food. And honestly, the UK does not have enough agriculturally suitable land to support its population.
Only way we could do it now. Would be to build multi level indoor farms. Technically, this is possible. But economically even more likely to require individual non-self sufficient solutions. IE, groups be they societal or capital motivated. Getting together to fund, build and manage such complex and experimental farming.
Not to mention energy requirements. Multi level lighting may be possible using sun reflection. But the more levels you need, the harder and more likely you are to need artificial lighting. So this increases our need to consider division of land usage for farming vs solar and wind or nuke generation.
Honestly, I am not sure being fully self-sufficient as a nation. Will ever be possible again for dense population nations like the UK. We have not been so food wise since sometime before the 1900s.
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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