Fuck me I want to kill people now.
18k for two days work and all. That’s about 40+k FT! Not a bad little job! There’s plenty work 40 hours for 18k!
That is a solid contributor to the "I'm not earning quite as much as I possibly could any more but we have a nice life and it's because I am so thrifty and virtuous" genre.
It's nothing to do with socialism. They're liberal Tories.
A masterpiece of the genre in many ways.
It does sound like a line from a Jane Austen novel
? cos the news section is certainly centrist/leftish wing, but the aspirational lifestyle stuff is... something else.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a husband who gives his wife only an allowance deserves a smack round the chops
Whenever push comes to shove, The Guardian supports the status quo. Anything that threatens a genuine shift to the left, e.g. Labour's current mild social democracy, is virulently opposed by them.
I don't know either. I grew up reading the Guardian - my parents started buying it when the Times was sold to Murdoch, and they were in state jobs like the NHS and teaching where it used to be the standard - and read it when I was in my 20s and I don't remember thinking that it was weirdly out of sync with reality. Now, apart from a few columnists, so much of it feels like it's written by a group of people who not only don't live in the real world but don't bother thinking about what it might be like for anyone else. (Tbh probably a lot of that is that I didn't realise the implications of what they were saying when I was younger.)A masterpiece of the genre in many ways.
It’s kind of shocking that a newspaper can publish that in all honesty. Well I find it. It’s like someone boasting about their wealth with literally zero insight into how the vast majority live. A kind of Lifestyle ‘let them eat cake’.
It’s breathtakingly insensitive and you’ve got to wonder, do they (the guardian) just not see it? Or do they just not care? But in either case, why publish all the hand wringing about tent cities and universal credit?
I can’t quite work it out
These are the socially-acceptable versions of the actual attitudes held by politicians, too.
Or, you know, anti-slavery in the 1860s. Twas ever thus.
It’s mockery if that’s the case. Because what is stolen from people is the very time to spend with their loved ones. Their children. Mothers and fathers both having to work full time on shit incomes to make ends meet, stressed trying to hold a million things in their heads, and a million worries from their door. Who’d love nothing more than to press pause on the endless spinning stress of it all and make sure their 14yo lad actually is ok, or pick their baby up from after school club before it’s dark, or not have to leave the house before their kids have gone to school and get them breakfast.
Yeah that’s the kind of... disconnect I was getting at.
You are just not prioritising hard enough.lucky you hen. I earn £14k for working a 33 hour week and I don't get a grand a month pocket money on top either. I guess I just don't love my children as much as you do
