https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017t8kAuthor and journalist Oliver Bullough traces Britain's vital role in the growth of 'offshore' money laundering.
Relevant to the food poverty thread, or at least to one of the topics in it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017t8kAuthor and journalist Oliver Bullough traces Britain's vital role in the growth of 'offshore' money laundering.
Why do those greedy creeps want so much? What do they do with it all other than send phallic gas guzzlers into space, buy virtual bullhorns such as that Twatter or fondle their bank account in a perverted fashion? I know the answer, mind. We humans are all insane. And getting worse by the hour.Mike Sales wrote: ↑25 May 2022, 5:08pm BBC Radio 4 13:45 Monday to Friday next week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017t8kAuthor and journalist Oliver Bullough traces Britain's vital role in the growth of 'offshore' money laundering.
Relevant to the food poverty thread, or at least to one of the topics in it.
I have a degree in hypocrisy, although they've failed to send me the large boaster-certificate to display in a nice frame. (It would go next to my qualification in cognitive dissonance).Tangled Metal wrote: ↑26 May 2022, 12:06am On a much smaller scale, how many bicycles do you own? I'm only on 4. The fact I use the word only is a clear sign I have a degree of greed and in some ways think I need more. I'm not the only one here I bet.
The question I have is whether size of greed or just greed is the real issue? If the former is more important then your opprobrium is correct. If the latter then you're possibly a little hypocritical. Just a thought.
We must meet for a beer sometime Cudgel - though I'd have to unearth my moribund wood working skills first, otherwise all we'd have to talk about would be bicycles and the state of the world
They're all businesses these days. Funny thing is most private schools - inc. Eaton... are registered as charities, too.I did used to give a portion of my monetary income to charities
Give everything away!? Do you think me mad?!! Anyone coming near my lurverly bikes & woodworking tools without permission will have the collie and the ladywife set on 'em. (The ladywife's bite is the worstest).briansnail wrote: ↑26 May 2022, 8:19pm he giving away thing is my antidote against my undoubted human greedy inclination. The rule is - if you don't use it yourself now, sell or give it away. If you don't currently need the money, give away rather than sell.
You forget whatever will the kids wife/husband say if you give everything away ?. Also its relative in many parts of the world to have one bike a roof over ones head and 3 meals a day plus mobile and TV is unbelievable wealth.
We humans are curate's eggs - good in parts (and rotten in other parts). However, the trick is to make attempts to stop the rot - to avoid falling into the various nasty modes that will turn our egg into a total rotter. The Christians understand this (sin, redemption etc.) but have a very strange method for attempting to control it all!Tangled Metal wrote: ↑27 May 2022, 7:19am Scale of greed perhaps shouldn't be more important than its presence but it is. Certainly in this world where despite it all we still all do the frost report class sketch thing with wealth.
I'm better than him because I don't have a massive fortune squirreled away from the tax man but I'm better than him because I give to charities and only have x number of bikes. While the guy in a desperate situation looks up to you and the billionaire and asks which child goes hungry tonight.
No doubt you could come up with a better written new money based class sketch than I but you get the idea. While we're all just putting our money into goods and savings for old age or rainy day there's people putting their money into feeding their kids when they can. Greed is for those with the money to be greedy which is also us.
Does giving away a comfortable amount of your money and time to charities assuage guilt that it's not you that's poor and struggling to survive? For my part that does a lot for me, the feel good factor, but I know it's only enough donations to not harm my financial wellbeing.
Sorry I'm so tired and it's making me negative, perhaps harsh in my judgements. At least rest assured in judging myself unfavourably too. I know I don't escape the greed trap the oligarchs got into, I'm just on a different level than they fortunately.
I have a theory that she gives "so much" to divert attention from the fact that their donations to gambling addiction support is minimal. And of course there are tax benefits. These people don't get where they are today, (remember CJ?) without being extremely canny.the Bet365 lady does her charitable bit too.
The many Adam Curtis filums are indeed a stimulation to the brainbox, jarring it out of many habitual thought-paths and into an exciting jungle of exotic notions. Of course, one does need a parsing-machete to get through it all. There are also dead-ends and deep bogs of Jeremiah-algae that can induce feelings of a paralysing dread!simonineaston wrote: ↑27 May 2022, 10:14am It occured to me yesterday, as I laboured up the hill out of town, that neoliberalism has simply recognized that the absence of colonialism and all the splendid opportunities it gave for helping ourselves (or at least those powers that engaged in it) to all sorts of commodities, can simply be replaced by the key players helping themselves to the commodity most readily available at home, ie the population. Now, more than ever, modern ecomonies are intent on monetising every single service that deals with large quantities of the pop. Now, we are the cash cow.
Everything we do, in life, is being turned into a source of income for the canny hard right - the new colonialists. All these services are intended to keep us quietly bumbling along, working hard enough to earn an income, which is promptly skimmed to pay for these services and keep the new colonialists rich. Genius.
Anyone who wants an entertaining tour through ideas that are helpful when considering such arrangements - or indeed which may allow you, dear reader, to draw your own conclusions, should check out Adam Curtis many films, inc the 6 part documentary, Can't Get You Out Of My Head available (I understand) on the BBC's iplayer.
If nothing else, you'll be in for a visual treat and some great soundtrack (I have a theory that AC is a frustrated DJ...).