If the wealthy do start to leave Britain you will get richer in more ways than one. They say we have to be very careful here how we treat the rich and by definition brainy people in our society because if you think you can start asking them to contribute to the society they live in they can get pretty upset. They may decide to go and live somewhere else and then what would we do, a brain drain and a money drain.
Firstly lets define the relationship between brain and wealth. I can't because there isn't one. Professors and academics are not finding themselves sitting on yachts enjoying the wealth of their labours, they are busy working like the rest of us. Inventing new syndromes or things to be afraid of or excited about. Like Number crunching Nostradamus's the profits of doom spend years working out how long it was going to be before the sun burns out or we all die of aids.
So by definition the rich are not doing that much in the brain department we can be sure of that. Yes but they are our captains of industry the people who create wealth and jobs. So you don't know anyone on your estate who is making a living and creating a good business. When the brains leave we are all going to stand around wondering how to fulfill our needs without global brands like Tesco or Costa to tell us what we need? nope.
But what about the money, we need their money and investment or we will all become poor. OK lets put ten guys in a room and say about eight of us have around 5 to ten quid each. another guy has half a million pounds and another has got say a million. But they say nasty things about him and he leaves the room. once he has gone then is everyone in the room richer or poorer? They are richer of course from the top down. All those with the fivers and tenners have relatively more money in the rooms economy and the second richest guy is now the richest.
What about jobs, we need the jobs. They seriously expect us to believe that if we upset someone who spends very little time here anyway that they are going to up and go to Sweden. Not only that they are going to take all their coffee shops, aeroplanes, oil rigs or whatever it is with them. They can't and if they did then number two richest guy will buy em and damn cheap too and just for fun he would then have to pay more wages to the rest. Because everyone else is a bit wealthier now he has gone.
Result is they leave and we get richer, real people get richer
2 comments:
Surely not strictly true as wealth across the board has increased fairly proportionately over the last twenty years at betwwen 2 and 5%. not much difference between rich and poor
In percentage terms yes. Adding even more insult to injury is the fact that the minimum wage has set a low level benchmark and people of that level have become 2 ish percent richer whilst the higher paid and super rich have increased wealth by 3 + percent. figures not exact but remember this is only a measure of the level of growth not actual pound notes but if you want an example 3% of 100 pounds is £3. 3% of a £100,000 is 3000. Which would you prefer at sainsbury's?
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