[personlurking]

Best comment I read from the article..

"That middle bit there, as you put it; "....it's depressing how easily you get used to the slugs, the dampness, the cold and the filth".......that's what is counted on. This separation of living standards, it's manufactured. Yes there are some random elements mixed in, but by and large everything is engineered to be this way. Government, banks, housing moguls....they know they have people over a barrell, they know people just have to get on. They also know that if they keep it this way for long enough, not so awful as to make people revolt but awful enough to serve their greed, people will get used to it. It will become expected. Then people will feel lucky for having the things that should be standard for everyone, not one person excluded. You are indeed lucky, good Sir, but you feel that way because of what you've been put through. They made the System, and the System has made you this way because that serves a purpose. That purpose is to keep the rich rich, the poor poor and to make everyone believe that that's precisely the way it should be."

[nailer]

That sounds an awful lot like a conspiracy theory.

How about: someone has a boat, and the government lets them moor cheaply in central London. They make money renting it, out of natural human self interest.

[personlurking]

I'm just sharing someone else's comment. The idea that the rich like to get richer and make the poor, poorer is pretty commonly thought.

[nailer]

Yes, but being common doesn't make it sensible or worth sharing here.