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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by jampekka on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:02AM (#42766108)
Interestingly people, especially poor people, were better nourished during the WW 2 rationing than before the war. Also e.g. universal healthcare was establised post-war.

Is number of war ships, or billionaires, a good measure for a country?

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/food-thought-rationing-...

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by graemep on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:52AM (#42766435)
I have not drilled down into the data, but I think it highly likely poor people did not benefit.

I have read that the Empire was a fiscal net negative. That was offset by it being a free market area with policies that favoured the UK, the benefits from that went primarily to a small minority.

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