scotview wrote:Nimrod103 wrote:
But the 'young people' don't want policies that might enable them to easily 'get rich'. They always want more 'left wing' redistributive policies don't they?
Do you believe that, do you think that's true? If so, the UK will become a socialist state.
I'm torn on this one.
I have read an argument that young people are big followers and buyers of IT products, iPhones, Apps, computer games, hardware, software, media (but not the BBC), and sport in all forms - all of which are a products of the free market.
OTOH whenever a company talks about profit, it is regarded as a dirty word, and immediately attracts talk of excess profit taxes. (In a free market, how can there be excess profits?) They want all barriers to immigration lifted, though is will make finding a job more difficult and a house more unaffordable. I suspect they favour the abolition of exams. They probably like the fact that two thirds of degree passes are now at first or upper second level, but don't see how grade inflation works against the interests of the clever, the hard working and industrious. They want their sports and pop idols to be rich, but not the clever, the hard working and industrious.