inflation might. one thing's for sure, interest rates ain't going to stay so low for everWhat do you think will trigger that?
inflation might. one thing's for sure, interest rates ain't going to stay so low for ever
the buy to let things are definite over-leveragingWith your talking about those high percentages I figured you had a particular and possibly proximate precipitating event in mind.
I thought it was a middle-class thing to avoid over-leveraging yourself but maybe that has changed.
the buy to let things are definite over-leveraging
Middle class people don't *do* the BTL stuff themselves, they have people to do that.Yeah, but (and this may come down to the weird way we talk about class round these parts), when I rented for years and years and years, I wouldn't say the majority of the BTL'ers I ran into (renting from them) were middle class. I mean, In terms of Marxist analysis, then on that level at least they were clearly not working class... but by the signifiers most people seem to use they didn't always seem that way.
Middle class people don't *do* the BTL stuff themselves, they have people to do that.
It is behind a door, in the corridor, outside my office.what is your relationship to the means of production?
I don't even know if I'm doing this right. Definitely higher recently but seems to have been bouncing about for a while.
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One reason the vermin hate socialised housing so much is it's a concrete reminder that capitalism can't house its workers.I am not saying the idea of a housing crisis was not part of the political landscape pre-crash...just that the insane rise in property prices was not initially signposted in any mainstream way.The de-coupling of mortgage allowances and income - ie, property which was affordable using 3-4x income which doubles, tripled and quadrupled to 12 x income for an average first time home, was not really seen as an impending crisis (unless you were directly involved in housing and its discontents, because the hefty gains in equity completely obscured the deepening inequalities in the UK. For many middle class people, property stopped being merely a home and became an 'investment'.
I dunno - I have always lived at the sharp end of housing, my whole life (the moonlight flit was a regular childhood occurrence)...and basic shelter should be a fucking right, not a privilege.
Yeah, that was meant to be kind of in support of the idea that usage had gone up. For all I know I did it completely wrong anyhoo.![]()
Quite.does anyone actually rate themselves as 'woke', impeccably or otherwise?
Was hard to get 'othered' by the middle classes at my school, unless all teachers automatically count as middle class.
Hey ho, maybe you're from an urban centre or maybe you're a deeply stupid fuck, can't say it matters.![]()
Everybody has a right to be worried. I was asking what factors lead people (specially, middle class people) to be outraged and motivated to action about this when they haven't been about... anything else.
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Could barristers earn more working in McDonald's?'£5.80 an hour'
While law can be an incredibly lucrative profession, especially in the private sector where they often bill by the hour, barristers in public criminal cases funded by the state face a different prospect.
Public prosecutors and defence barristers' rates are set by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) respectively - and most barristers are self-employed, so their gross fee has to pay for travel, insurance, pensions and other costs.
A junior prosecuting barrister (who may have a decade of experience) will receive £46.50 for a single court appearance. If that takes a full eight-hour day, factoring in the court appearance itself, preparation and travel time, then this works out at £5.80 an hour - way below the minimum wage.
School as an institution, and as a process, inherently "others" w/c kids.
Having to ask for explanation = - 5 WC points.Could you expand - I wouldn’t want to dismiss this as drivel without a proper assessment. (+5 woke points grudgingly awarded)
Having to ask for explanation = - 5 WC points.
I should hope not.I don't subscribe to that sort of hippy bollocks.“Quite woke”.
Is something you’ve never been called.![]()
Reread Learning to Labour again a while back. Great book.School as an institution, and as a process, inherently "others" w/c kids.
Could you expand - I wouldn’t want to dismiss this as drivel without a proper assessment. (+5 woke points grudgingly awarded)
Reread Learning to Labour again a while back. Great book.
I strongly recommend. Best thing I've read on social reproduction of schoolsCriminally I've yet to read this.
Very briefly:
The curriculum, what is valued, and what is not, reflects the values of the dominant class.
The definition of educational success, what assessment measures and what outcomes should be sought also reflect the values of the dominant class.
These values contradict the lived experience of w/c families. Bourdieu talks of this as "symbolic violence".
You could also look at what Baudrillard calls "atmosphere" in schools. The architecture, colours, materials, design of "high status" schools - that aspired to by all schools - is the "taste" of the dominant class. Look at school uniform for a blatant example of this.
There's tonnes more though.