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PostPosted: 23:39 - 19 Jun 2025    Post subject: If I ruled the world... Reply with quote

One single change or focus to change the world. Sensible suggestions please, not "free hand-jobs on the NHS" you filthy beasts!

For example: I'd aim to make energy free or as near free as possible. More nuclear, more solar, more wind, more gas if necessary (although I wouldn't go as far as coal) instead throwing it away on hot nurses and lube free at point of use healthcare.

If energy was free everything else would be cheaper, including healthcare. Daft things like water in plastic bottles would go as there'd be no excuse not to use and recycle glass. Winter fuel payments would become redundant as would half the social security budget. And while no one would pay for electricity, business taxes would be proportional to energy usage - gotta pay for it all somehow! - encouraging industry to be more energy efficient Smile
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PostPosted: 06:19 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I ruled the world? Mmm. Interesting thought/debate. Firstly, I think I would make it mandatory for everyone to get along and respect each other as a priority and I would make that law punishable by death.
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PostPosted: 06:34 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

burn it all down.
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PostPosted: 06:56 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd wipe the human race out ... no more damage to the planet, no more energy problems, food problems, health problems, suffering, enslavement etc.

We are a cancerous growth on the planet and nothing we do will stop the damage we are doing, well unless we massively reduce the population, which isn't going to happen until the next world war breaks out, which it will at some point when we start fighting over dwindling resources!
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PostPosted: 07:17 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not one of these anarchist anti capitalists but...

I'd definitely remove capitalism as best I could. I'd keep the system of money we have at the moment, but I'd disable people from acruing billions of pounds or dollars. Any excess people make I'd tax and give to the NHS. I'd want the same for the US and other places where the healthcare system is for profit. Why?

Well, in the US a lot unseen unthought about issues arise from needing health insurance. Most people get their insurance through their jobs, so there are hardly any self employed people in the US. It's a tiny tiny percentage. People stick with jobs they absolutely hate because they might lose the insurance, not just for them, but for their whole family too. People take absolute crap from their bosses, bad payrises, terrible conditions because they cannot afford to privately purchase medical insurance and need it for their kids or sometimes sick relatives.

I'd also make sure that everyone had at least a room to stay in, and could eat at least basic food. The idea of universal income has been scoffed at a lot, but if it was not too high, and allowed people to get the basics and live in a room or two it would solve a lot of poverty issues.

Nobody needs a billion dollars or pounds. Nobody can earn that using any concept of an hourly wage or salary. It's essentially taken by paper transactions relating to an asset or intellectual property that is not *worth* that amount of money. Take JK Rowling. She wrote Harry Potter and because of the IP laws and popularity of the character and stories, she now lives on a yacht and bankrolls legal challenges that stop people from being who they want to be. That shouldn't happen. She should absolutely be able to become a millionaire from writing a few stories. She should not have been able to earn more money than any human can realistically spend in their lifetime.

It would also stop undue influence of the rich in politics. If it were done globally it would probably stop a lot of people trafficking too.

Humans need to look at things as less transactional on a big picture scale I think, but we're inherently selfish and probably won't ever be able to reach that sadly.
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PostPosted: 08:34 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
but we're inherently selfish and probably won't ever be able to reach that sadly.


Indeed, and even those with very little harbour hopes of gaining more...
.. that's capitalism!
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PostPosted: 08:56 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

BanditsHigh wrote:
I'd wipe the human race out ... no more damage to the planet, no more energy problems, food problems, health problems, suffering, enslavement etc.

We are a cancerous growth on the planet and nothing we do will stop the damage we are doing, well unless we massively reduce the population, which isn't going to happen until the next world war breaks out, which it will at some point when we start fighting over dwindling resources!


human race has but a few generations left

inbreeding will get those that inbreed, they'll be lying about starving and no-one to feed them

with the constant increase in ADHD etc it will affect most, they'll be unable to do anything so no food production even on a basic scale, no food, no-one to feed them as everyone else will be inbred cabbages or have ADHD
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PostPosted: 09:18 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

A100man wrote:
MarJay wrote:
but we're inherently selfish and probably won't ever be able to reach that sadly.


Indeed, and even those with very little harbour hopes of gaining more...
.. that's capitalism!


No, not in the strictest sense of the term. We can have a functioning society without Billionaires, and for the majority of us everything else will be the same. Exactly the same. Less poverty, less financial hardship due to healthcare or job loss, but the same.

Like I said, I'm not advocating for communism, or pure socialism. I'm advocating for a little bit more socialism and a little less Elon/Rowling/Bezos/Zuckerberg.
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PostPosted: 10:02 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the playing field were made level again then some would save/invest and some would spend/waste and we'd be right back where we are now.
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PostPosted: 10:12 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
I'd definitely remove capitalism as best I could.


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Seriously though, asset accumulation has gotten out of hand but saying "all income over a certain amount goes to the NHS" means getting rid of the NHS. Everyone would make sure their income doesn't go over the threshold either by redirecting to somewhere else (i.e. rich ppl and their clever accountants) or they just won't work as hard.

Can we think of a positive rather than prescriptive action? Redirect the energy rather than snuffing it out?
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PostPosted: 11:04 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

panrider_uk wrote:
If the playing field were made level again then some would save/invest and some would spend/waste and we'd be right back where we are now.


Not if you taxed assets over a certain level, or treated passive income like active income.

In the US you get taxed half as much on passive income as you do on their equivalent of PAYE, and there are massive breaks for billionaires.
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PostPosted: 11:06 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

Celebrities must be made to provide free shags to gladsome busty boomer-mamas* on the NHS.

My consultant of the week is Dr Schwarzenegger.




*But not anyone who has a face like a bucket full of arseholes like this blue-haired harridan that popped up in my ads at the bottom of the page today. Even Arnold doesn't deserve that.
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PostPosted: 11:10 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK that wasn't very serious.

I'll try to think of something that isn't (a) too hippy, (b) too capitalist or (c) too socialist ... or doesn't make me sound like Jacinda Ardern.

Tough call...

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PostPosted: 11:35 - 20 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was at college a lecturer told me how real equality worked. He said we collect all the money in the country and share it out equally. Then when I have spent my share we collect all the money in and share it out equally again. Can't see much wrong with that. Thumbs Up

Seriously -

I would implement the universal income and tell people, that's it. Not one penny more from the state. I'd get rid of all the departments we wouldn't need then. It would probably save more with the amount of civil servants, council departments and quangos we could get rid of.

Oh, and just to show I'm still the lovable fascist you all know, boat migrants and immigrants would have to become citizens and work for at least a year before being allowed to claim it.
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