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I know that there is a great deal of;"What business does he have watching Sky TV when he does not work nearly as hard as I do." about.
Dear David. My "attitude of absolving people of their responsibilities", if that is what I am doing, I don't that it is quite that though, has created none of the problems.
Certainly, Never a lender or a borrower be, is a fine maxim, but it simply is not the Capitalist way, is it?
If one is set to pay £X for rent and £X for a mortgage, why settle on paying rent? Either way, not coming up with the readies will result in homelessness.
Where the promise of a booming Capitalist Society has gone wrong is in it's development, over recent years, into a Company-Store. The attitude the financial sector has adopted over that time is one of superiority over the Nation-State.
History shows that a policy of "Company-Store" ensures the enslavement of the populace/workforce. Where 'generous' wage settlements occur all that that money can buy increases in cost so as to make the wage rise less than worthwhile.
While some individuals may be able to shop further afield it ill behoves them to denigrate the plight of those left in the lurch.
Who but the borrower and the by-stander has suffered?