The media and our pompous pampered privileged ministers of government, have been crowing about the UK's economic growth, previous year was an unexpected growth of 7.5%. I suppose we the ordinary folks are supposed to whoop and yell with delight and pride. However, before you jump up and down with you joy and shout yippee, take a moment to reflect how your life has changed over that same year. Have you shared in the 7.5% growth in wealth, or have you struggled harder than the year before. Like everything in this society it is all about economics, not about human health and welfare. All that is indicated by that 7.5% growth is that businesses have been doing much better, shareholders are getting richer, but have they passed on a fair share of that wealth to you and I? Once again this the media playing the illusion game, these little titbits are meant to be the paracetamol to make us all feel better, but in no way cure our problems. Take all that economic bullshit with a pinch of salt and focus on how we are being driven back to the Dickensian era, while the millionaires/billionaires laugh all the way to the bank.
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