CapriciousDay

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick notes to be overhauled in back-to-work drive, Liz Kendall reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think the main driver is neoliberal austerity doing what it does. The wing of the party in charge are basically Thatcherites. They want to the market to decide who gets access to basic necessities and bureaucracy to decide anything else.

  In general I think neoliberals are becoming embarrassed by the fact that evidence based medicine is increasingly at odds with capitalistic ideals around how workforces should comply with the rich. So they want to introduce an apparently technocratic (which will inevitably be as low skilled tickbox bureaucratic as you like) body to replace actually qualified people - doctors- in this area.

  I think it’s also a bit of a reaction to changes in the geopolitical scene. They’re hoping that in the event of further war in Europe that desperate but physically able people will be coerced into the military. By taking the ability to decide who is sick out of the hands of doctors and into the state they make this a lot easier. Similarly, more money for manpower and munitions by not paying out in benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Britain feel so poor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A few thoughts: we’re not that poor, a lot of the current distribution of wealth and government spending aims are the result of neoliberal ideology first and foremost.

  That said our nominal GDP growth has been harmed by neoliberal policies which have shifted the UK away from producing very much and towards playing many silly games with money. We measure how much we move abstract representations of currency around (which usually represents some probabilistic measure of value of money, which in itself is really just numbers with no intrinsic value) We saw the financial crisis in 2008 and apparently thought to ourselves “let’s have some more of that”.

  So we’re in a situation where our overseers are seeing our GDP failing to grow as it should, panicking, and implementing more of the same policies that cause that situation in the first place. The UK isn’t poor yet but it will be soon. The young and the poor are the ones who are feeling the bleeding edge of this trend but it’s filtering through to the middle class now as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick notes to be overhauled in back-to-work drive, Liz Kendall reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s sort of shitty but by the looks of it she was talking directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer offers US tech companies tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to say Starmer was merely spineless, but he had plenty of spine standing up to left wing members of the Labour party. It’s pretty clear his allegiance is to the US and its idea of a global order, no matter what form that takes.

  Starmer represents the insidious ingress of US fascism, paving the way for Reform.

• Sick notes to be overhauled in back-to-work drive, Liz Kendall revealsinews.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's just eccentric⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me I was actually diagnosed with just dyspraxia as a child and it was considered severe enough to have some support needs, recently my mum told me that the educational psychologist said I probably had symptoms of both autism and ADHD but I was never put in front of a psychiatrist who could diagnose that stuff.

  Of course this was also back when the DSM had the mutually exclusive diagnostic criteria so who knows what they would have labelled me with in the end. I think the apparently ADHD symptoms bother me more and seem more treatable so I’ve gone in for a referral for that at least. Only 6 months to go 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main thing about the prevailing circumstances is that it showed idiocracy was way too optimistic. Their eugenics-ish narrative happened over way too long a period of time. We just needed a bunch of billionaires to poison the information supply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government to save £5bn by restricting benefits to 'those with the greatest need'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, genocide wing of the labour party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An opinion brought to you by somebody who’s never done a real day’s work in her life.