Fudoshin ️🏳️🌈@feddit.uk to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 11 months agoUK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say expertswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down10cross-posted to: europe@feddit.deunitedkingdom@feddit.uk
arrow-up144arrow-down1external-linkUK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say expertswww.theguardian.comFudoshin ️🏳️🌈@feddit.uk to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 11 months agomessage-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: europe@feddit.deunitedkingdom@feddit.uk
minus-squareTenebris Nox@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoOK as long as we also adopt a limitarian approach to personal wealth in the UK. Tax personal wealth above £10 million at 100%.
minus-squareFudoshin ️🏳️🌈@feddit.ukOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoIf @frankPodmore@slrpnk.net read this he’d have an aneurism. He’s a big believer in collecting wealth to the tiny 1%.
minus-squareNickwithaC@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoWhy 10 million? Make the whole nation middle class.
minus-squareTenebris Nox@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoIt’s worth getting a copy of the new book by Ingrid Robeyns extract here. To answer your point directly: surely making everyone “middle class” is a mechanism for dealing with inequality (and poverty).
OK as long as we also adopt a limitarian approach to personal wealth in the UK. Tax personal wealth above £10 million at 100%.
If @frankPodmore@slrpnk.net read this he’d have an aneurism. He’s a big believer in collecting wealth to the tiny 1%.
Why 10 million? Make the whole nation middle class.
It’s worth getting a copy of the new book by Ingrid Robeyns extract here. To answer your point directly: surely making everyone “middle class” is a mechanism for dealing with inequality (and poverty).