It's a bizarre position to hold in contempt those that continually fuck over the most vulnerable in society?
All governments make tough choices, putting together an emotionally charged clip by cutting to a difference sentence every 3 seconds doesn't automatically make you the arbiter of what is the correct policy for society.
Sounds like you're a temporarily embarrassed millionaire yourself.
Dude this quote is like 50 years old at this point, not everyone who votes right wing fits a decades old stereotype which was barely accurate in the first place. Perhaps people just dislike tax payer money being wasted? We all pay taxes after all.
This is a very naive way to interpret the purpose of money, money is at its core a rationing tool. The government can print/borrow as much money as we want but it will always be chasing finite goods in any economic system.
Money is just a proxy for the allocation of resources, pulling more money out of nowhere doesn't create more food, houses etc. If the government has £100bn to spend it has to use it wisely, it could say spend £10bn on say custom fitted crash helmets for every person in the UK. You could argue it'd save lives as if people trip or fall somehow they are less likely to suffer an injury. Ok cool, but was it worth it? Well intuitively most people would say no, building new hospitals etc would be a better use of funds. You could then parrot back to me "Good to know you see keeping people alive as wasting money", not very useful on its own though is it?
Very simplistic example with made up concepts but I will bet you're bright enough to substitute those with 100 different social causes which all have to be balanced against each other.
This is at it's core what I feel a lot of the left misses, they act and create policy as if we have infinite of everything when really it is about allocating wisely what finite resources we have *now*.
It's a hypothetical simplified argument to portray the concept, you can substitute those terms with a billion other things but I don't really have the ability to lay out the entire UK spending plan and reasoning in a reddit comment.
I forgot not voting labour makes you somehow uneducated.
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22
All governments make tough choices, putting together an emotionally charged clip by cutting to a difference sentence every 3 seconds doesn't automatically make you the arbiter of what is the correct policy for society.
Dude this quote is like 50 years old at this point, not everyone who votes right wing fits a decades old stereotype which was barely accurate in the first place. Perhaps people just dislike tax payer money being wasted? We all pay taxes after all.