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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostThere's a depressing lack of robots making our day to day lives easier.
Many of them seem to have closed down to be replaced with lots of blokes with buckets and sponges...Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI'm probably against a minimum wage, I think the country generally worked quite well before it was introduced.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostIt worked even better in times of Dickens when kids were doing their bit for society by mining for coal!
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostRe-open the pits and send down the unemployed!
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostFunny thing is the miners fought running battles with the police to keep their hellhole jobs....
Mining jobs were well paid.
Mining was a "job for life" they wanted to preserve that.
Allowances for all sorts of stuff were freely available and lucrative.
Paid holidays were good.
The unionisation was very strong (for good historical reasons) and the miners knew that they held a lot of power collectively.
Entire communities revolved around each pit, the miners and their families wanted to protect those.
There were more than a few other reasons.Comment
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I've got no problem with living or minimum wage. Increasing it a lot might make immigration worse though, by making low paid jobs more attractive to EU citizens. Or not, if it makes work more attractive to British citizens too.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostIt worked even better in times of Dickens when kids were doing their bit for society by mining for coal!
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Originally posted by unixman View PostI've got no problem with living or minimum wage. Increasing it a lot might make immigration worse though, by making low paid jobs more attractive to EU citizens. Or not, if it makes work more attractive to British citizens too.Comment
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