mag41uk wrote:Will be interesting to see what happens at the end of this.
Will mistrust of all things Chinese have infiltrated the psyche of the UK population?
Wouldn't it be great if UK gov could look at the 100`s of failed businesses and give them a helping hand to take over producing typical imported goods.
A couple of local schools have taken up 3d printing face visors for NHS staff.
Also folk making headbands with an attachment to hook the face mask around as their ears are getting sore.
Its a time of need and I do think the British back bone is evident sadly marred by that few percent of total numpties.
I doubt it, human nature is what it is and lacks the qualities necessary to be a sustainable dominant species.
Greed, avarice, a desire for things and a malign shopping addiction seems to be at the heart of all human beings.
You don't need much brains to know that what we have been doing post war has been oh so wrong.
A capitalist system based on unlimited growth is obviously unsustainable as all things are finite.
A global system that is always at the risk of being held hostage to national vagaries is tenuous at best.
A system that generates wealth that flows upward into the pockets of a few only leads to the paupery of the many.
We all knew that plastics which wouldn't degrade quickly in nature was bad but humanity continued to consume plastic bags etc. etc. with alacrity.
Everyone knew that the growing debt bubble of the '80s, '90s, and early 21st century was doomed but everyone still piled on the debt, people were boasting about "maxing out their credit cards". Personal credit rating adverts are now mainstream showing how you can have your hearts desire by racking up the debt. I buy with what money I have in my pocket but most of the world buys things with money they don't have and never will. Debt is now a currency.
Political deregulation has left people open to even greater exploitation but no-one took issue with that whilst it fed their petty sine qua non.
Global corporations continue to cynically exploit at every opportunity, look at VW and the emissions scandal, look at the banks that nearly brought the economic system down behaving with even worse avarice and criminality with the populace having to pay for their evil. Even in this current crisis the supermarkets, one of the few businesses to to well out of covid-19 are getting their snouts into the governments rate relief trough worth billions to them and currently paying huge dividends to their shareholders on the back of it.
I could go on and on, I haven't even discussed Amazon, ebay and the internet's parasitic, exploitative guzzling on our fatal follies. What this shows is that people have no rectitude, integrity or moral value system up to the task of managing the consequences of human ingenuity.
Human nature shows what it is capable of in times of crisis as we watch individuals giving their all for their fellows, at great personal risk to them selves, whilst global capitalism is true to form creaming what they can from their backs.
Post this covid-19 plague people will default to their petty avarice and mean desires, whatever changes the corporations will continue their cynical exploitation of the human condition for their own sad greed.
Governments who should be balancing social need against global greed are too tied up with their own vested interests and their shallow need to remain in office to do their duty.
We get what we deserve as a consequence of our own actions, or in most peoples case their own inactions.
