Re: The Budget
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:25 pm
Steady on mate. Remove the mediocre, the downright useless, the jobsworths and the increasing numbers employed to make up artificial targets of race, disability or sexual orientation and our entire system of local government, not to mention the civil service, would disappear overnight.BlackDiamond wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:38 amI think it's quite amazing that in India 50% of a very large population is under 25. Go India,go.Whiskyman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:04 am
But in ANY scenario involving macro economics there has to be a risk and reward analysis. The law of unintended consequences can be a bitch,. Close huge swathes of the economy, reduce peoples disposable income, destroy many small businesses, screw around with the education of the next generation of tax payers and, voila, you have a significantly reduced tax income to fund, among other things, the NHS, possibly for a great many years to come.
And at the risk of sounding totally heartless for what ? If we were that concerned about preservation of life for it's own sake would we not, as an example, be sending billions worth of aid to address the issue of malnutrition ? And just for the record I'm not suggesting we do that, simply using it as an example. No doubt there are many better ones as others will probably point out.
Our population, and no doubt the same applies in other countries, is getting older. There is now a greater percentage of "elderly" people than there have ever been before. Whether we liie it or not the death rate will, therefore, increase not least because as we get older we become less able to resist diseases.
One consequence of a year of lockdown disruption, is the accelerated change in working habits and the shift into new technologies.
Almost all companies are planning downsizing their infrastructure and using their workforce more imaginatively. Which will reward the very brightest who in a more transparent work environment will obviously be more visible.
The losers are the vast swathes of mediocre talent who sat comfortably embedded in successful organisations without contributing enough.