Pacifist, now socialist?

[diy_fun_uk]

I posted last week with some self-reasoning that suggested I might be becoming a pacifist. I now wonder if I'm also becoming a socialist?

Whilst I can't claim to be 100% socialist (if indeed such a thing can be measured that way) I find myself thinking the industries our country requires to maintain social mobility (in the physical sense of the word) and that underpin our infrastructure should not be in private hands. So things like public transport, the healthcare system and our utilities.

Whilst I'd never wish any individual harm, I feel the monarchy is an outdated institution that needs wound down with all assets (land, palaces, grace & favour homes etc) used for public endeavours.

I support the idea of a genuinely fair wage for all. Whilst not anti-capitalist, I do think the wage divide between many CEOs and the workforce is no longer justifiable and don't necessarily subscribe to the 'it's what the market dictates' rhetoric, to me that's a useful line to trot out by those lucky enough to be in those positions.

So, with the usual jokes held back please, what am I?

 

[EFLImpudence]

So, with the usual jokes held back please, what am I?

Sensible?

However, that's not how the world (i.e. people) work.

 

[transam]

A communist

 

[EFLImpudence]

I was talking to a business man acquaintance and asked why Jeff Bezos - with all the reports about his staff's poor conditions - did not pay them better and maybe settle for just ONE hundred billion for himself.

The reply was "Because he doesn't have to".

 

[JP_]

And the only way he'd have to is if all governments in countries he has factories (all?) increased minimum wage and improved employment rights.

 

[JohnD]

So, with the usual jokes held back please, what am I?

Take this test and it will tell you. You are under no obligation to tell anyone else the results.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test


OOI, one of the questions is:

Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.

Strongly Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree

 

[Trazor]

Whilst I'd never wish any individual harm, I feel the monarchy is an outdated institution that needs wound down with all assets (land, palaces, grace & favour homes etc) used for public endeavours.

The Monarchy is a net contributor, financially, to the UK, and we need every penny.

https://brandfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/1/brand_finance_monarchy_press_release.pdf

 

[JP_]

Seeing that no tourists actually get to meet the royals, we could just use actors instead. And save a huge security bill. And rent out the palaces and stately homes to wealthy holidaymakers. Then they will earn us even more money.

 

[JohnD]

The Monarchy is a net contributor, financially, to the UK, and we need every penny.

https://brandfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/1/brand_finance_monarchy_press_release.pdf

Amazing that they managed to retain so much of the nation's weath while paying inheritance tax, income tax and capital gains tax just like everyone else. For example HMtheQ personally owns Windsor Castle. When she inherited it the tax must have been enormous. Funny thing is, when it was damaged by fire, the bill to restore it was split 65 million ways. I don't usually pay the bill to repair a house owned by somebody else.


Eh?

What's that you say?

 

[EFLImpudence]

That'll be why France has had no tourists since 1793.

 

[JohnD]

they do have quite a number of very fine public buildings and parks, though.

 

[Trazor]

What's that you say?

The Monarchy is a net contributor.

 

[JohnD]

The Monarchy is a net contributor.

Eh? Don't pay inheritance tax?

Well, how much Council Tax is paid on Windsor Castle? How much less is it than than the owner of a large house in Reading pays?

Surely you are not including in "net contribution" the money paid by others, such as tourists buying plastic red bus souvenirs, and tins of shortbread? Your silly link tried that dishonest trick.

 

[Brigade77]

So, with the usual jokes held back please, what am I?

It's possible that you are a National Socialist.

The ONLY political system that has ever worked for the greater good of both society & the individual.

 

[EFLImpudence]

The Monarchy is a net contributor.

How can they be?

Isn't that like saying the Inland Revenue (albeit Her Revenue and Customs) is a net contributor?