Kristian you are right to a point. We have failed to build spaces to do business and breed profit and growth. But you haven’t gone far enough to get to the lowest common denominator. MONEY! You call it investment, I call it SPENDING. You call it Growth, I call it MONEY. You can’t spend, build or gain profit without money. And the fact we haven’t done enough over 50 years is directly because of money, or the lack of it! Yet, there is not a lack of money out there, there is just a lack of money being used to build the platforms you describe as a bottleneck. And you are right! There is not enough money being used but, in particular, being SPENT! So is there a lack of money or spending or both? I would say both! Firstly let’s look at the population. Is there enough money either in cash or digitally or held in electronically Bsnk accounts to supply 60+ million of UK population to work? My answer is NO! There isn’t sufficient to go around! That is not just my view. I’ve heard 95% of money is held by 5% of the most wealthiest. If that’s true, then the remaining 95% of people have just 5% of money! So no! We don’t have enough currency to go around. Secondly spending! Is there enough spending? No! That’s why you have concluded a bottleneck choking off effort! You are correct! The money being spent is not enough, nowhere near enough! In the main because too much money is held unused and unspent by the few rich. A rich man pays no tax on money unspent or unused! None! So the consequences are we are devoid of its use. So no wonder the tax revenues are insufficient for our governments ability to pay its way. It’s simple!!!! It’s not difficult to see surely? If you have billions in the bank but keep putting a £1 in your fuel tank why are you scratching your head and standing in bewilderment when your car keeps stopping! It won’t work unless you use your wealth and fill up the tank! I’m fed up with pigeon holes. Capitalist or socialist. Liberal or free market, or communist and fascist! We are or should be democrats. We live in a democracy and abide by democratic rules. Trump and Putin want to mess with that but they will for their own ends find out like the French that inevitably it leads to civil war or uprising. Democracies are the fair and equitable kind and thoughtful way to treat all do they support their government. But that view us under strain. Your view of the last 50 years is not accurate as it’s based on the wrong things. How do you run an economy? How can it be autonomous and perpetual. Well, not by hope! We all earn and spend in the hope it comes back again! That’s hope! Your view of neoliberalism in trying to explain that hope is a thankless task indeed. But it’s to much to think about. What we see is the government’s of all colours and views have failed. None have worked and any analysis on failure is useless. Capitalism , socialism, communism and fascism have all failed and don’t work. No we need to do the right thing! Based on the only way for it to work! It’s like a clock. It had to work perpetually and autonomously without intervention. Money and spending can now be that way. Before the seventies they couldn’t run that economic system. It was just a hope. Now we have computer accounts, payment cards, digital and electronic money. So now it’s easy. But to work, we need a few things in place. First a proper evaluation of how much we need as a nation based on population. A population of 80 million needs more than one of say 1 million. We need to produce. So we need money moving to ensure that. So have digital money. Earn as much as you can. But you have to spend it! That’s the answer. Spend it or loose it to the exchequer. Get wealthy from the stuff you buy, not the money itself. Do away with all tax, except VAT. That will make enough for the exchequer. Enjoy spending all you earn. But make it available to all again! We need goods to flow abroad but not money! It must stay in the UK. For them to spend in time too! Equilibrium of trade! We need a society that grows for all not the few! The few holding money for years is the problem! It’s the way it works. No longer do we need to navel gaze for an explanation of the past. Just make the right choices for it to finally work! No one should be richer than the government. That’s not democratic. It’s not neoliberal or socialist or capitalist or anything! It’s just what works!
Excellent. I often wonder if one could put a price on being a NIMBY. That is, allow the right to undertake the cost to develop as a presumption (i.e. a variable YIMBY price based on anticipated production costs) then, for those who oppose development, demand that, to halt development, they buy out that right as a collective (i.e. a potentially low shared price per NIMBY - if they can garner support). Creating a market in rights with transparent pricing is a much better decision making mechanism than local Councillors and middle-class property owners locking up the future.
Kristian you are right to a point. We have failed to build spaces to do business and breed profit and growth. But you haven’t gone far enough to get to the lowest common denominator. MONEY! You call it investment, I call it SPENDING. You call it Growth, I call it MONEY. You can’t spend, build or gain profit without money. And the fact we haven’t done enough over 50 years is directly because of money, or the lack of it! Yet, there is not a lack of money out there, there is just a lack of money being used to build the platforms you describe as a bottleneck. And you are right! There is not enough money being used but, in particular, being SPENT! So is there a lack of money or spending or both? I would say both! Firstly let’s look at the population. Is there enough money either in cash or digitally or held in electronically Bsnk accounts to supply 60+ million of UK population to work? My answer is NO! There isn’t sufficient to go around! That is not just my view. I’ve heard 95% of money is held by 5% of the most wealthiest. If that’s true, then the remaining 95% of people have just 5% of money! So no! We don’t have enough currency to go around. Secondly spending! Is there enough spending? No! That’s why you have concluded a bottleneck choking off effort! You are correct! The money being spent is not enough, nowhere near enough! In the main because too much money is held unused and unspent by the few rich. A rich man pays no tax on money unspent or unused! None! So the consequences are we are devoid of its use. So no wonder the tax revenues are insufficient for our governments ability to pay its way. It’s simple!!!! It’s not difficult to see surely? If you have billions in the bank but keep putting a £1 in your fuel tank why are you scratching your head and standing in bewilderment when your car keeps stopping! It won’t work unless you use your wealth and fill up the tank! I’m fed up with pigeon holes. Capitalist or socialist. Liberal or free market, or communist and fascist! We are or should be democrats. We live in a democracy and abide by democratic rules. Trump and Putin want to mess with that but they will for their own ends find out like the French that inevitably it leads to civil war or uprising. Democracies are the fair and equitable kind and thoughtful way to treat all do they support their government. But that view us under strain. Your view of the last 50 years is not accurate as it’s based on the wrong things. How do you run an economy? How can it be autonomous and perpetual. Well, not by hope! We all earn and spend in the hope it comes back again! That’s hope! Your view of neoliberalism in trying to explain that hope is a thankless task indeed. But it’s to much to think about. What we see is the government’s of all colours and views have failed. None have worked and any analysis on failure is useless. Capitalism , socialism, communism and fascism have all failed and don’t work. No we need to do the right thing! Based on the only way for it to work! It’s like a clock. It had to work perpetually and autonomously without intervention. Money and spending can now be that way. Before the seventies they couldn’t run that economic system. It was just a hope. Now we have computer accounts, payment cards, digital and electronic money. So now it’s easy. But to work, we need a few things in place. First a proper evaluation of how much we need as a nation based on population. A population of 80 million needs more than one of say 1 million. We need to produce. So we need money moving to ensure that. So have digital money. Earn as much as you can. But you have to spend it! That’s the answer. Spend it or loose it to the exchequer. Get wealthy from the stuff you buy, not the money itself. Do away with all tax, except VAT. That will make enough for the exchequer. Enjoy spending all you earn. But make it available to all again! We need goods to flow abroad but not money! It must stay in the UK. For them to spend in time too! Equilibrium of trade! We need a society that grows for all not the few! The few holding money for years is the problem! It’s the way it works. No longer do we need to navel gaze for an explanation of the past. Just make the right choices for it to finally work! No one should be richer than the government. That’s not democratic. It’s not neoliberal or socialist or capitalist or anything! It’s just what works!
Or to simplify to 2 words: housing; energy.
(There is no shortage of retail units!)
Excellent. I often wonder if one could put a price on being a NIMBY. That is, allow the right to undertake the cost to develop as a presumption (i.e. a variable YIMBY price based on anticipated production costs) then, for those who oppose development, demand that, to halt development, they buy out that right as a collective (i.e. a potentially low shared price per NIMBY - if they can garner support). Creating a market in rights with transparent pricing is a much better decision making mechanism than local Councillors and middle-class property owners locking up the future.