Originally Posted by kowalski

We don't need to be working more than 20 hours a week now. What happened to all the fruits of increased productivity? How come in Liverpool there is a lot of stuff that needs doing and a lot of people without work... and therefore food, lodging etc.? What the fuck is that? Things need doing and other people who could do them are going hungry, simply because no one who is accepted by the governing bodies is prepared to speculate on the profitability of doing those things.

The road outside might have a pothole and your neighbour might be an out of work ex-groundworker. He could fix it and you, his community, would probably like that and make sure that he didn't go without potatoes and apples and whatnot. But what would really happen is he would get in trouble with the law. What the fuck is going on there?