#124

By taking it of people and giving it to other people

#125

:clap::clap::clap:

#126

next time i’m sat next to you in the pub i’m gonna ask for the cash contents of your wallet to be resdistributed to me :+1:

#127

But that would be meaningless. For full fairness he would have to give you his car or house.

#128

i’ll take the house then, cheers

#129

Also you do not have to hand over this “cash” for the drinks. Apparently the only meaningful measure of wealth is labour or assets, and you are providing the labour of your conversation, so all’s fair.

#130

It’s also weird how hoarding stuff like cans of peas is considered socially unacceptable, but hoarding cash obsessively is something to celebrate.

#131

Is it? I bet rich people think that other rich people who hold lots of their wealth in cash are idiots.

#132

Not that I have any interest in getting involved in this bunfight, but who exactly is celebrating the hoarding of cash, other than the people who are doing it?

#133

Times Rich List etc

#134

That’s not based on cash. Stakes in companies, land, other assets, not much cash.

#135

From the perspective of someone who was still at school then, things didn’t seem that bad until 2011/12 when Tory policies such as scraping EMA and tripling tuition fees started kicking in. I still got EMA in 2011. As a politically ignorant teenager I wasn’t even phased by the fact the Tories were in power in 2010.

2008 probably wasn’t quite as gloomy because at least no one anticipated that a permanent Tory government would follow. Or Brexit. Or Trump. Even 2010-15 was bearable because it looked like pretty likely Labour were going to win the next election.

Economically things were probably more prosperous, but everyone was miserable anyway because of Iraq and 8 fucking years of Bush. It was just a different type of misery.

#136

Maybe I should change that to “Hoarding tins of peas is seen as weird and socially unaccaptable, but hoarding assets/property is seen as smart”. Hoarding property/resources/assets that could be of real use to other people shouldn’t be celebrated as a sign of success.

#137

If there were a worldwide pea shortage, so scarcity became an issue (as it always is with, say, housing in this country), pea hoarders would be seen as smart.

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#138

That’s the way the tories like it. They put a lot of effort into maintaining that.

#139

Subtle correction there.

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#140

It’s all about keeping score at the end of the day. The natural result of people living a comfortable enough lifestyle that they can treat life as a game where the main aim is simply to own more assets than the next person.

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#141

I can’t think of any time when people who hoard tins of peas wouldn’t be seen as weird. There’s probably a thread by one of them on old DiS to prove it.

#142

End Times cultists think it’s normal and a smart thing to do. I have unfortunately met one. (She also didn’t believe in dinosaurs).

#143

This reminds me the IT guy is out next week and his replacement is the conspiracy theorist guy who thinks he’s not a conspiracy theorist.