So why is UK poorer than USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand?
Eveyone thinks UK is a decent country, especially for education, healthcare, and government. It has nice cities, that are much safer than America.
Why are you guys so poor?
Top 10% of income earners starts at about 35,000 pounds.
Top 1% of wealth starts at 700,000 GBP, this is less than single family home in most decent parts of California!
What is your excuse? Lack of smart engineers (chinaman or indian engineer caste?) Taxes? Is it hard to start a business? People say the "colonies" are less established, so their is more "opportunity" wtf does that mean?
Our government took our guns and pointed them at us
Hudson Bell
when did that happen?
Austin Kelly
UK is arguably the best nation for higher education
Caleb Bell
Well it all started back in 1594 when some dude assassinated another dude.
Lucas Ross
>poor It's all relative, and you don't even need a very high income to be rich here. Most people are happy, we have free healthcare and a strong national identity for the most part. Our government works because it's evolved over hundreds of years, and it's the same situation for education (at least the universities). It's safer here because we don't have guns at all really and there's very little gang culture outside of inner cities. As for the earnings, you're wrong. Not sure where you got £35k from, but the top 10% of earners in the UK earn at least £60k/yr (see pic related). Granted, the average salary is about £28-30k/yr, which is lower than in other places, but it doesn't make people poor, nor does it make people sad that they have less money. In short, we aren't poor (but not as rich as other places), and we're fine overall.
Benjamin Long
yah, but england wuz rich and sheit, now there all poor people.
So English people not start businesses? Why are you poorer than germany for fuck sake...
Adrian Ross
Utter Costcutters thread
Noah Howard
how does an average english wage earner save/invest their money?
What kind of investments, and what are the expenses associated with an ISA?
Here we use Vanguard and buy SP500 or total market for about a .05% holding fee.
What is yours?
My dream job, seems to pay more in UK (heavy equipment operator), but it would be harder to start my own business due to a lack of cheap financing.
Anthony Thomas
England is the 5th richest country in the world in terms of GDP, your numbers don't reflect at all the situation in the country. please delete your meme thread asap
Adrian Wilson
britain is a shit desu mad to think they ruled 25% of the world 100 years ago
Ireland is proof none of these numbers means a thing. It's literally a shitter, more boring UK with somehow worse weather. No charts can change that.
Gabriel Roberts
sure as hell am not opening that virus
Justin Foster
its wikipedia dumkopf
Thomas Powell
>shitter not really in any regard except for maybe healthcare. But thats only because ours is really bad, nothing to do with yours doing good.
>boring I suppose, knowing that a terrorist attack could occur at any moment is exciting in a sense.
>somehow worse weather Only makes us stronger desu
Lucas Torres
does ireland have worse weather and worse jobs?
Jordan Garcia
All the local buisness is hairdressers and fastfood, our industry is long dead and the bankers bought westminster a long time ago. And the fucking queen sits on her arse collectng tax payers money
I hate this stupid island
Ayden Wood
>GDP per capita Doesn't show distribution and is 4 years out of date >Where to be born index Only ahead by 0.74/10, also 4 years out of date >Human Development Index Literally 0.007 points higher, given it's an estimate too means that difference is invalid >Global Terrorism Index """British""" terrorists in Northern Ireland, sure
The rest of them, fair enough. But you need to get a new infomeme
Nathan Martinez
yeah it rains more and its windier here. Don't think we have worse jobs though. If you've got a degree in stem you could move to Dublin tomorrow and find a job by monday
our GDP has only increased over the last 4 years
Adam Harris
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Andrew Ramirez
USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand weren't bombed to fucking shit during World War II. IIRC the UK was wealthier per capita out ofany of them before then.
Logan Jackson
ngl we have a housing crisis and a property bubble, housing is incredibly expensive and taxes have driven up the costs of living.
we arent poor though, despite our mild cultural/racial tendency towards depression we are generally quite content, we like mediocrity.
Everything is just ok really
The worst problems here are the lack of natural resources, overcrowding, difficulty in updating vital victorian infrastructure and 50s/60s urban planning/monstrosities. Also immigrants, labour's huge debts and high taxes to pay for both , 20%VAT and individual taxes absolutely ruins cost of living, we still are generally quite happy but thats no reason not to complain
Joshua Phillips
how is it a property bubble?
Matthew Russell
I love meal deals, this bender is trying too hard to be clever
Eli Martin
when ireland gives you bants about terrorist attacks lul
Ian Morris
I am sorry that my English father fucked a foreigner and produced me. I apologise on his behalf, it was out of my hands
Austin Sanchez
if your father is English then you're English
Carter Howard
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA British sure, anyone can be British but I'll never be English
