seems like class war bait is going to be all the rage in 2026
hime-633 on
“Rich trust systems rigged in their favour”?
Well, gosh.
GMN123 on
To be fair, they’re probably all correct. The system still works for the wealthy.
Lazy_Crab_3584 on
Of course they trust the system, it’s working exactly as intended
OrdinaryJord on
Of course the rich trust the system. They’re the ones benefiting from it.
ChaiTeaAndBoundaries on
Of course the rich trust the system, they have lobbied the government to maintain the status quo.
Tax Wealth not Work.
Klumber on
A substack blogpost should not make it to the headline on r/unitedkingdom it’s clearly designed to provoke the headline crowd.
BobMonkhaus on
From the sources about us page:
“The POLLUTERS and their CRONIES IN GOVERNMENT are killing us”
Disillusioned_Pleb01 on
The system has increased their wealth and power beyond their imagination, even though they have admitted the system is broken, but then again, it’s working fine for them
foodieshoes on
To me that translates as: the rich want the status quo, the poor know it’s a rigged game.
Our country has always been about class, hell even our supermarkets are class-based, but any notion of a veil has fallen since COVID.
The classic line we sometimes hear trotted out that, *”Britain is a country based on fair play”*, is by now gone, it may have meant something back in the days (pre-2000s) when MPs would resign if they were caught out and you felt like there were rules that even the rich were expected to follow.
By now we see no-one has any shame whatsoever, it’s a desperate scrabble for get rich however and by whatever means necessary.
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This is also why I have (some) sympathy with those working class who voted for Brexit, at some level they probably knew it might make them poorer/worse off, but it at least had a ***chance*** of changing something, somehow for the better, even if it didn’t make logical sense.
I don’t have any sympathy for those of middle-class/older generations who’ve had the best of things relatively speaking. They should have known better and have no excuse for the utter mess they’ve created.
Having said all this, I remain optimistic about the future, I feel like we’re still hitting bottom in the west and we’ll need to go a little deeper still, but that the younger generations especially will see this and help the world turn a corner. They seem like they have a good head on their shoulders, they just need to make sure they don’t wait to ask for permission from those already in power.
Impressive-Bird-6085 on
The only ones who appear oblivious to this are the politicians……
zeusoid on
Because the system is pay to play.
And the more you have the more you play
SignalButterscotch73 on
Rich get more rich and poor get more poor…
Rich think it’s all good.
Poor think it’s fucked.
I’m shocked and appalled that the poor don’t trust the system. Get with the program poor’s, the system clearly works perfectly. Not a single flaw. Exactly as designed.
tosher11 on
Lazy news reporter
Looking to make an easy story about reactions posted on Reddit
JackStrawWitchita on
‘Economic growth’ just means the wealthy get more money faster while the poor continue to get nothing. That’s why politicians shouting about ‘growth’ just seem out of touch with ordinary people.
hoopjoness on
By a political party with affiliations to “abolish Westminster” god can we have one crisis at a time pls
Feorag-ruadh on
Of course they do, the system only serves the rich
ExpertSausageHandler on
As an enlightened centrist I don’t trust the rich or the poor.
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seems like class war bait is going to be all the rage in 2026
“Rich trust systems rigged in their favour”?
Well, gosh.
To be fair, they’re probably all correct. The system still works for the wealthy.
Of course they trust the system, it’s working exactly as intended
Of course the rich trust the system. They’re the ones benefiting from it.
Of course the rich trust the system, they have lobbied the government to maintain the status quo.
Tax Wealth not Work.
A substack blogpost should not make it to the headline on r/unitedkingdom it’s clearly designed to provoke the headline crowd.
From the sources about us page:
“The POLLUTERS and their CRONIES IN GOVERNMENT are killing us”
The system has increased their wealth and power beyond their imagination, even though they have admitted the system is broken, but then again, it’s working fine for them
To me that translates as: the rich want the status quo, the poor know it’s a rigged game.
Our country has always been about class, hell even our supermarkets are class-based, but any notion of a veil has fallen since COVID.
The classic line we sometimes hear trotted out that, *”Britain is a country based on fair play”*, is by now gone, it may have meant something back in the days (pre-2000s) when MPs would resign if they were caught out and you felt like there were rules that even the rich were expected to follow.
By now we see no-one has any shame whatsoever, it’s a desperate scrabble for get rich however and by whatever means necessary.
—
This is also why I have (some) sympathy with those working class who voted for Brexit, at some level they probably knew it might make them poorer/worse off, but it at least had a ***chance*** of changing something, somehow for the better, even if it didn’t make logical sense.
I don’t have any sympathy for those of middle-class/older generations who’ve had the best of things relatively speaking. They should have known better and have no excuse for the utter mess they’ve created.
Having said all this, I remain optimistic about the future, I feel like we’re still hitting bottom in the west and we’ll need to go a little deeper still, but that the younger generations especially will see this and help the world turn a corner. They seem like they have a good head on their shoulders, they just need to make sure they don’t wait to ask for permission from those already in power.
The only ones who appear oblivious to this are the politicians……
Because the system is pay to play.
And the more you have the more you play
Rich get more rich and poor get more poor…
Rich think it’s all good.
Poor think it’s fucked.
I’m shocked and appalled that the poor don’t trust the system. Get with the program poor’s, the system clearly works perfectly. Not a single flaw. Exactly as designed.
Lazy news reporter
Looking to make an easy story about reactions posted on Reddit
‘Economic growth’ just means the wealthy get more money faster while the poor continue to get nothing. That’s why politicians shouting about ‘growth’ just seem out of touch with ordinary people.
By a political party with affiliations to “abolish Westminster” god can we have one crisis at a time pls
Of course they do, the system only serves the rich
As an enlightened centrist I don’t trust the rich or the poor.