[dzonga]

you're just pointing out elite capture & corruption that tends to be pervasive in the UK.

when I was in the UK my landlord was a politician. his peers are politicians.

an inflated contract gets given out to a private company - no one complains. yet to give people working in councils, civic sector decent | market rate salaries. now everyone complains.

I'm not even gonna go into the whole taxation scam.

[somenameforme]

Not just the UK. Happens everywhere, certainly in the US as well. Pair that with governments granting themselves the power to print infinite amount of money and you get all sorts of causal relationships like increasing inequality, wages becoming disconnected from $ measured productivity, and much more.

The data here [1] are for the US but I'd expect it's quite similar for the UK as well, since 1971 is when Bretton Woods ended and the beginning of the era of funny money.

[1] - https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/