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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by DeathArrow on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:18PM (#35294869)
> This gives them very little incentive to actually help people at the bottom of the totem pole

Err, votes are the biggest incentive for politicians.

> Is a shelf stacker in Sainsburys a high skilled job? No. Is it absolutely crucial in order for Sainsburys to have a working business? Yes.

Not really, they will soon use robots.

> The same is true for the cleaner in a bank. If a bank is covered in dirt and stinks people are not going to bank there. Likewise with cleaners of trains and pretty much any other industry.

I think in Japan cleaning is robotized already.

> When you pair the fact that governments are funded by the same people whom are also funding a divisive narrative throughout all media outlets you end up with a grim and bleak outlook for society.

Governments funded from taxpayers money.

Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by makingstuffs on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:27PM (#35294967)
Votes matter a lot less in an FPTP voting system, and the point about media division and ownership plays into the fact that people can easily be mislead into voting against their own interests.

Not sure if you are aware of the little old B word which was proven to have been based on a campaign of lies.

As for your remark about robots replacing shelf stackers and cleaners. I’ll leave that as the ill-informed and provocative comment it is.

Regarding government funding, governments spend public tax payer money, yes. Political parties receive their funding from private donors who ultimately end up expecting some kind of payback for their donation/bribe. Which ultimately comes out of the tax payer’s pocket.

This creates a cyclic system which is built to extract wealth from the bottom and middle classes in order to feed it back to the society’s richest people.